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On Thursday 23 January 2003 06:23 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:06, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> > Anyway we got probably 95% of the distro redone and there really was not
> > nay difference worth mentioning.
>
> Did you try anything specifically CPU-intensive, like audio and video
> encoding? When I used to compile transcode manually, I got a 2-3fps
> encoding speed difference between compiling for athlon and for i586.
Here no. It was more like we were looking for more speed in everything. I can
safely say kde does not get any faster by doing this kind of thing.
As you mentioned however yes there are specific instances were there may be
gains. I would think that transcode, lame, and maybe a few other math
intensive apps could do well here. Also mplayer and a few others that are
able to take advantage of sse instruction sets as found in the athlon xp.
However there simply is no need at this time for me to try this again.
With the exception of multimedia apps as you mentioned.
On a side note. I have been doing bibletime rpm's for the bibletime team for
many years. I finally got around to making the build optimized. In my working
on it however I found that probably all the kde packages are not being
optimized correctly. I will need to check all the spec files for this but the
cflags and cxxflags are not being exported and so they do not run as fast as
they should. While enabling this on bibletime I found dramatic speed
increase. There is a module (Webster's dictionary) that is utterly huge. I
think 50 megs or so and it was taking about 5 minutes to load. After fixing
the compile time options the load time for this module was about 2 seconds.
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