On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:57, Matthew Gregan wrote: > The performance difference between GCC optimising for i386 and i586 is > unlikely to be noticable for most tasks.
Indeed, and within the life-time of a specific version of a command, what is the likely comparison between the full configure/compile cycle, and the number of executions * optimisation speedup? I suspect that a frequently-updating compile-from-source gentoo user is spending more CPU time per application than is healthy ... Especially with distributed.net, seti, protein folding, and other worthy causes clamouring for your CPU cycles ... -jim
