RFC: Optimizing for 386 (Part 2)
Sean Middleditch
elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Fri Mar 25 08:24:06 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:56 -0600, Joseph Wagner wrote:
> Hello Linux Naysayers!
>
> You may remember about two months ago I started a flame war asking why RPM
> packages were still optimized for 386. The best answer I heard said that
> the powers-that-be do not believe there would be a noticeable improvement,
> and if I wanted to affect real change I would need to prove them wrong.
>
> So I've set out to do just that.
>
> I'm here today to announce the Hypersonic Penguins project.
>
> http://www.hypersonicpenguins.org
>
> Details are spelled out on the website, so I won't repeat them here.
> However, I will summarize by saying it has RPM packages optimized for 686.
No, they aren't. Not a single objective benchmark or measurement. Just
"it feels faster" with no proof that it's not just a placebo effect.
You might have set out to prove something, but you haven't even started
to do so yet. Show some benchmarks. Show how much quicker the X
rendering show. Show how much smaller the latency is. Prove it.
That build server is about as mis-quoted as it could be. What do you
need a Radeon 9600 in a build server for? DVD-RW? Water-cooled case?
You think of getting the best CPUs on the market - two of them - and 4GB
of RAM, but only ask for a paltry 80GB 7200 disk? Either you have no
clue what you're doing, or you're trying to scam people into buying your
new gaming box for you. Either way, I certainly hope nobody gives you
any money for that thing. *snicker* We just sold 80 old Pentium's at my
workplace, to people planning on giving them to grand parents, children,
and so on - thankfully Fedora will run on them. You might look into
getting some old machines - a setup like that could make an excellent
build farm and cost no more than one or two hundred bucks.
>
> You are invited to download them, install them, and tell me how wrong you
> were when you see the faster speed.
>
> I'm being charged a premium for bandwidth, so please download only the
> packages you have installed.
>
> Thank you for your time and your tolerance.
>
> Joseph D. Wagner
>
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>
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