[ale] Bleeding edge linux?

[Stephen Turner]

linux especially gentoo has achieved incredible speed!
now i dont know a whole lot about linux compilers but,
what if all you had to do under linux was dl a package
like gentoo roughly 16 megs in size. this package had
a general kernel and compiler that would work on most
if not all systems and the cd is bootable ;) it
establishes a connection or uses source from a
specified location to run through the compiler which
is told which processor your running so it can right
the assembly code for it? true the programs created on
this system would no longer be able to be used on any
other system most likely but the optimization would
kill! it would take default c code like normal linux
packages and churn out the pure assembly code? is this
possible? or just soo difficult its nuts? or is this
how its done? i know linux uses c code but i would
think if it was pure assembly it would be much faster.
ahh well.. i would love to hear your thoughts please reply!

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