I would agree, for a lot of smaller apps or utilities rebuilding would be meaningless. But for XFree86, and major packages like kde, gnome, mozilla, open office, gimp, etc., it does make a significant difference. I've replaced i586 with athlon-xp optimized packages to run on my XP system, and I can testify that performance is noticably improved.
Robert Crawford On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:53 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:42, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > > Greg Meyer wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:27 pm, flacycads wrote: > > >>really, how hard can it be to recompile the entire distro for > > > > > > different > > > > > >>architectures like Gentoo does, and post the iso's with an > > > > > > "unsupported" > > > > > >>disclaimer, if need be? IMO, they will loose a lot of users if they > > > > > > don't. > > > > > > Only Gentoo doesn't do it. You compile Gentoo yourself on your own > > > box. > > > > All the distros release the source code. > > I still think a show of community support could take that, and compile > > processor specific versions... ;) > > And I think that this would be nonsense. Maybe the kernel and Multimedia > apps should be recompiled but thats it. How important is a athlon-xp > optimized 'ls' ? What is so athlon-xp specific beside the special > instruction sets ? Which app makes really use of it ? For ix86-64 it is > totally understandable, but athlon-xp ?
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