So sprach Edward Avis am Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:56:27AM +0100:
> Probably not as much as the hype suggests. But I think it is noticeable
> (5% to 10% is the figure touted for Pentium optimized gcc versus i386
> gcc).
I doubt that 5% are actually noticeable.
> processing, SETI@Home). But in those cases the standard i386 build
Well, SETI@Home of course cannot be compiled as it's closed source.
> might contain all the possible assembler-optimized routines for
> different i386-compatible processors and choose between them at run
> time.
Yep.
> Personally, I am thinking about rebuilding the Mandrake packages for
> 386 and 486 processors, so I'd like the installer to cope with that.
Yes. I also think that "other" optimization techniques are better
suited for performance increase. I just tested Debian, and it simply
felt faster/more responsive than Mandrake, although Debian is purely 386
"optimized".
I wouldn't shed a single tear if Mandrake dropped i586 optimization...
Especially a i586 only firewall (MandrakeSecurity) doesn't make any
sense at all to me. No, I rather think that it's counter productive,
but well...
Alexander Skwar
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