Hector Martin

Curious about how my project will perform on such a distro, and what needs to be done to properly build it.

If you're used to Arch then Gentoo shouldn't be a huge leap. It's basically Arch with yaourt (except better) as the default package manager, and a lot of cool features. The documentation is pretty good, if you follow the docs it should be no problem. Just be patient compiling :)

That's what i thought, and i had given it a try on my laptop, but a braswell celeron ain't the fastest thing on the planet lol, my 7740X should chew through it decently well.

If you're doing textmode that should be tolerable on any CPU, but if you want things like desktop environments, web browsers, and office suites, then yeah a Braswell would be quite painful.

FWIW until now I've been doing local builds on my main workstation (i7-3820QM). I have a *lot* of software installed (I mean a ridiculous amount). Takes ~50 hours to recompile it all. Doing monthly world updates was a "leave it overnight" kind of deal.

Now I have a Threadripper 1950X as a dedicated build box (builds packages for all my other Gentoo systems). Takes 14 hours to chew through a full recompile of my workstation's packages. I've scheduled weekly updates for everything and they should mostly be done in a few hours.

Nice, unfortunately i can't afford one of those on a Home Depot budget

Sure, just giving you a benchmark. i7-7740X should be at least 2x faster than my laptop I'm guessing. And Portage has some issues maintaining full parallelism, so the Threadripper goes underutilized (need to debug that). So I think you'll be fine.