On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:53:20PM +0100, spear wrote: > I was wondering, about the fact some Linux distributions are " optimized " > for i586 processors : what does it really change ? Are there any benchmarks > comparing a distribution giving the choice of both i386/i586 ?
I don't know any, but you may find some interesting results at <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/compila.html>. IIRC the average benefit is about only 5%, which may be somewhat higher (eg. gzip compresses about 10-12% faster) in some cases. In case you're interested, there's a project for recompiling potato for the i586 at <http://debian.fsn.hu/>. The status report says that they've already recompiled ~85 percent of the distribution with pentium optimization. Regards, -- BALI, Andra's GPG keyID: 78560E1C [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
