Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 04 November 2000 17:05, T Korte wrote:
> | On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> | >
> | > For that matter, why not also have a 686 version ;)
> | >
> | > Thanks... Dan.
> |
> | I'd like to see an Athlon version, but perhaps I'll try to optimise some
> | things myself.
> | Tom
>
> I'd like to support Tom. Athlon (Duron) optimized mandrake would be very nice.
> AMD selling more and more processors, just for one quarter they sold aroun
> 3.5 million.
> May be, at least key packages can be optimized for Athlon and available
> through Cooker.
Two problems:
1. gcc does not optimize really well for this class of processors (IMHO)
2. you'll not get what you want because processor-specific opts can only
get 1-5% of speed, e.g. you'll never notice the difference
--
Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
