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by Someone 2 days ago
AFAIK, that wasn’t solely a matter of picking the optimal compilation flags. It also included profile-guided optimizations and kernel tweaks.
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Doesn't that get into the domain of a distro like Gentoo though? (Or sort of Nix as well) - rebuild everything to precisely target your actual architecture.
Yes, and the maximally performant configurations are at odds with a usefully hardened security posture. This only gets more true as time goes on and additional mitigations pile up.