RFC: Optimizing for 386 (Part 2)

[Jon Savage]

>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.
<snip>
> I'm being charged a premium for bandwidth, so please download only the
> packages you have installed.
A yum repo would be nice...
Also quantifiable *reproducabile* benchmark testing would go a long
way towards showing whether or not actual rather than perceived
performance improvements have in fact been made.
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Bests,
Jon