On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:43 -0800, Anthony Green wrote: > 2. We build binaries for the lowest common denominator, so the plugins > you'll find in Fedora, for instance, don't take advantage of SSE > hardware or instruction scheduling for different processors. This can > make a huge difference. What would be nice is if we could distribute an > RPM containing a plurality of plugin builds, and then have the > application load the plugin matching the capabilities the execution > platform.
Perhaps it would be possible to create packages for "i686" in addition of packages compiled for the "i386" architecture? I think I used to do that for my Planet CCRMA packages... but I don't think I ever saw a noticeable difference in performance. -- Fernando
