On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:40:36PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Arun Sharma proclaimed:
> > Just to set the expectation right, depending on your application, you could
> > see 0% to 10% improvement. Not 50% or 100%.
>
> Any metrics (even ball park) on how much performance improvement I'd get if
> I recompiled ALL the installed packaged on my machine for my processor
> (say, i686)?
http://www.stampede.org/faq.php3#bench
Has some benchmarks. Given that most apps are domainated by user mode
time, the most you have to gain is by optimizing user level stuff and
or buying faster hardware.
Only disk/system intensive processes will see any benefit by recompiling the
kernel with i686.
-Arun
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