Eric Hodel wrote: > On Apr 24, 2007, at 19:13, Jim Weirich wrote: >> (1) Do we need to differentiate between the various ix86 hardware >> architectures (e.g. i386, i486, i586, i686)?
> I think the distinction is bogus. While its possible, I really doubt > there's any Ruby-C code that requires a specific processor in the x86 > family. My impression was that is a compile time thing. IOW, if I tell the compiler to enable i686 code generation, it might omit opcodes that are not available on earlier processors. I think that the position we should take is that if you want that level of optimization, compile it yourself. If you are making a gem for general distribution, compile it at a i386 level for broad compatibility. >> (2) What's up with Darwin8.8.1 stuff. My Mac claims to be 10.4.9, but >> Ruby is Darwin8.8.1. Is the 8.8.1 the BSD version, not the Mac OS >> version? > > Its the Darwin version. 10.4 is Darwin 8, 10.3 is Darwin 7, etc. Hmmm ... that's as bad as Sun's versioning schemes. Oh wait, I take that back. Nothing's that bad. -- -- Jim Weirich [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://onestepback.org -- In theory, practice and theory are the same. -- In practice, they are different. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
