On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:35:43PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > - yes, 486, because we don't actually support 386, and compiling a 686 > won't bring much performance improvement as is the case with Linux > which does assembly optimizations
AFAIK, building for 686 makes gcc reorder the generated code differently and also lets it put cmov instructions. Isn't it worth the cost of having several images ? -- Richard Braun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

