Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

[Kevin Kofler]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> I'm after a system-wide answer, not a microbenchmark for zlib or crypto
> code. It should take into account any overheads involved in
> saving/restoring registers on context switch that wouldn't otherwise
> have to be saved/restored.

Doesn't the kernel have to save/restore them anyway? Or how does it know
that a program doesn't contain any SSE assembly?

        Kevin Kofler