optimizing comiler in slackware

Good morning, After working with gentoo for over a week now I don't see any difference in speed versus slackware which for me was kinda dissapointing Well anyway I will be intalling slack again but this time I want to build X and kde from source like gentoo did to see if it helps at all. My question is how do I make it so that anything I build will be for my EXACT architecture like the make.conf file for gentoo or is there anyway to do it? I would like to make it a one time deal instead of having to modify the source for each application I download. Thank you for any help you can give.

Compiling programs with the options you want is sometimes difficult in non-gentoo distro's.

For example, to build any mozilla program with compiler optimizations, you need to learn the custom syntax of mozilla's config file, the .mozconfig.

Example optimize line for .mozconfig

I would imagine many programs have config files like this, which you would need to learn the syntax of to optimize it.

I could be wrong though, mozilla firefox and thunderbird are the only progs i build from source on my own.

Most packages (but not all) use autoconf and automake to configure for a certain architecture and setting compile time flags. configure options are usually fairly standardized. You can see the ones it supports by typing "./configure --help"