On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:29 am, flacycads wrote: > 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 ?
Matter Of fact, your comparison with Texstar's optimized KDE is unfair. There is more done to that KDE than simply recompiling it for Athlon or 686. Several diagnostic features are turned off or left out. Civileme
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