>> Someone else ask what the real benefit to moving to i686+SSE2 is. >> I haven't seen overwhelming evidence that a huge benefit exists. >> I think somone is working on gathering more data, but unless it shows >> massive gains > > To be relevant, such data gathering should be performed on non-x86_64 > capable CPUs, because there are already fully optimized Fedora packages for > x86_64. > > So that's Pentium 4, Pentium M or their Celeron or Xeon versions, Atom or > VIA C7. There does not seem to be any AMD CPUs that supports SSE2 but does > not support x86_64.
Xeon went 64 bit long before the desktop processors did. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
