-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:52 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Yes, the popular perception is that i686 has got to be better than > i586, and compiled for athlon must be even better .... no? Real > world is that neither i686 or athlon compiling provides anything but > somethin to do if you're bored. Could even reduce performance. At > least that's been my experience for some years now (Tbird/VIA > kt133a). Many others have reported the same. Texstar and a few > others compiled almost 95% of a recent Mandrake release for athlon, > and gave up cause it was no better, introduced more problems. Gentoo > has actually been shown to be no faster tested against i586 Mandrake. > Often slower, from what I've read of others experience.
I would agree on optimizations up to athlon-xp. Since GCC3.2 came out, I have optimized XFree86 and KDE for athlon-xp and there is a noticeable improvement in the responsiveness of the gui. Other big packages like OpenOffice.org and GNOME would benefit too I am sure. For most other stuff, you're right, even athlon-xp makes no noticeable difference and could introduce instabilities. For anything optimized below athlon-XP, I have not noticed any difference - -- Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+W+tXGu5uuMFlL5MRAt8vAJ0dk26sMndr4XXsAHlvgpuNwJbFIwCeKtRs abx0qtjCvsrMTlboyotArwg= =rzuP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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