Athlon optimisation (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20000906034509) Foucault writes "A place exists called Athlonlinux.org that has like purpose to optimize any distribution of Linux for the processor Athlon by means of AthlonGCC that is a patch for PentiumGCC. Since Linux runs equaly well on Pentium and Athlon with no Athlon-specific optimization, Athlon-optimized packages would run a great deal better. Is LM optimized for Athlon? " COMMENT: LM is pentium-optimized, but no special Athlon optimization has been done so far. Producing and especially selling a whole athlon-optimized distribution would be a problem, but we could add just a few packages pre-compiled for Athlon, (kernel, compiler), and give you a hand at re-compiling for Athlon by specifying the athlon as a possible build architecture and giving sane compiler pre-sets for this architecture, so that "rpm --rebuild " on an athlon PC results in athlon-optimized binaries... There is a list of optimisation flags on athlonlinux.org webpage, but I wonder how good do they perform... Big problem would be debugging, since we could not offer the same level of testing for athlon-optimization as we do for a standard pentium-optimization. But then again... Compile, try, if it barfs go back to standard pentium optimisation... Sounds interesting, what do you think, would this be of any use? Is it feaseable?
