RFC: Fedora Extras shipping ix86 optimized rpms?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:21, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Question: Shall Fedora Extras support ix86 optimized packages but
> i386-compiled packages rsp. under shall circumstances shall Fedora
> Extras support such packages?
> 
> Background: Some folks have started to add i686-built application
> packages in addition to i386-built packages to Fedora Extras, claiming
> these i686-built, "optimized packages" would result into much better
> performance of these packages ("up to factor 2").

those optimized packages aren't faster; at least I find it hard to
believe.... esp on p4 and athlon cpus where cmov is no gain again ;)

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