Will performance be better (quicker) if I manually compile the source for a software component for the actual machine that it will be used on, compared to if the source was compiled on another platform perhaps for many different architectures? I got some good results compiling source that I downloaded and I wonder whether this was due to compiling it instead of downloading a pre-compiled binary which is often the case with software updates.
Binary Compilation – Compiling vs Using Pre-Built Binaries Performance
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Best Answer
In many (if not most) cases, yes. This because the compiler can produce native code optimized for that particular CPU and environment. The code is more "targeted".