On Saturday 04 November 2000 23:32, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
| Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > On Saturday 04 November 2000 17:05, T Korte wrote:
| > | On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote:
| >
| > 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)
looks like we need gcc 3.0 for it, in any case (if you don't want to struggle
with buggy gcc 2.96, its _experimental_ branch)
|
| 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
Do you mean gcc doesn't use 3DNow! instruction set?
I start to wonder if MMX is supported...
MpegLib and QT should benefit from either 3DNow or MMX. Compression utilities
like ARK, probably, too. Of course, it depends how they are written...
KDE2, as it heavily uses QT, will benefit from such optimization as well.
Finally Mesa3D will benefit, for sure. I have seen mail from somebody on one
of the lists claiming he got +5FPS for software-only Mesa after recompiling.
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