Re: [plex86] More on C++ (using assembler can be bad)

[John Summerfield]

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> vendor, Red Hat, still targets the '386 by default!  The decision to
> abandon 

That hasn't been entirely true for some time. Some packages are compiled 
differently for different CPUs.

For most people there is no practical difference anyway; if your CPU is idle 
90% of the time, does optimisation really matter?

If you're down to the last 10% of performance you should have upgraded to 
something faster.

There can be cost advantages to having better code, but I suggest actual 
instances are hard to isolate.

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