RFC: Optimizing for 386

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Jan 20 00:26:09 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:42:13PM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> > 
> > Some other RPMs have code that detects i386 vs. i686 vs. Athlon
> > (really "regular" vs. MMX/SSE/etc.) at runtime and uses the best
> > available.
> 
> Just curious -- which packages are those?  (Besides X and kernel.)

Most of the video and audio apps do this, Mesa does this for 3D and can
make good use of 3DNow!




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