On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:18:13PM +1300, Chad wrote:
> Also being i586 and -O2 compiled it's going to be abitfaster on an old
> pentium than Debian (i386). Of course if it is a 386 then debian.
I'm not sure why you make that assumption.
I think you'll find that most software packaged by Debian developers is
compiled with -O2, except where there is a good reason not to.
The performance difference between GCC optimising for i386 and i586 is
unlikely to be noticable for most tasks.
-mjg
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