Red Flag announces an Intel-compiled distribution

Red Flag announces an Intel-compiled distribution

I wonder how often this 10-15% speed increase would show up in real life situations. e.g. how often does one encode three MPEG2 videos and at the same time write a 1000 page report and view a webpage with 100 java applets? The only time this speed increase would approach significantness is when one constantly uses heavy number-crunching (e.g. scientific programs, like Folding@Home). For other applications, is this 10-15% speed gain worth the loss of freedom?

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