On 2/13/2011 8:14 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Feb 13, 2011, at 8:54 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/F12X86Support >> >> Apparently, a decision was made to drop support for non-CMOV processors >> in Fedora, Ubuntu as well as Mandriva. >> >> Looking at the limited info on the link above, there seemed to be some >> resistance to making that change, just for the sake of a /minimal/ >> increase in performance. > > Every bit of performance increase helps. > > >> Was there any particular reason why this was done? > > 1) Performance benefits for people running on systems that were built > this century.
The Via C3 isn't so ancient though, and some people like to use them for quiet low-power servers. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
