Richard Braun, le Mon 28 Feb 2011 11:03:02 +0100, a écrit : > 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 ?
I don't think it's worth the mess: our performance issues are really with I/O aggregation & reordering. See the huge difference between running a Live CD (sitting in memory) and executing from a disk. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
