compilation architecture

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 17:51:19 UTC 2008


2008/1/12 Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek <jakub.rusinek at gmail.com>:
> do we need to support legacy cpu's by i386 compilation?
> i586 would make fedora faster even 3 times.
> difference is noticeable.

.....
where are your benchmarks for the "3 times faster" claim?
the i386 packages are already optimized for newer cpus (mtune vs. march)
where it makes sense to have i686 versions there are some (kernel, glibc)




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