Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Tue Jun 16 00:31:45 UTC 2009


Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:
> drago01 (drago01 at gmail.com) said: 
>> Moving to i686 is fine, non i686 chips are mostly dead (but the
>> perfomance gain from moving to i686 from i586 is questionable at
>> best).

> ... how so? It's consistently 1-2% in reasonable benchmarks (real-world
> code, albeit cpu-specific).

I don't understand how this proposal can survive even momentary
consideration.  We're going to cut off some nontrivial fraction
of our userbase to get 1-2% speedup for the rest?

As was already mentioned, the people who need speed are probably
on x86_64 already.  The x86 builds are for legacy hardware *now*,
and should be understood as such.

			regards, tom lane




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