On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> "BN" == Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > BN> Please re-read. > > No need. > > BN> "the only statistics we have available". > > "are flawed". Don't quote them at all if you know they aren't > correct. That's my only point here. > > BN> If you've got better ones, please share. > > You know I don't. You also know that my not having any doesn't have > any bearing at all on the fact that you shouldn't be quoting > statistics you know to be incorrect. With x86_64 (hopefully) covering the majority of the modern systems what is the harm in leaving x86 i586 compatible? Isn't the only difference in arch=i686 as far as userspace is concerned cmov? It seems that some people question the general usefulness of cmov: http://ondioline.org/mail/cmov-a-bad-idea-on-out-of-order-cpus "Pentium or better" is a nice understandable break point. "Pentium pro or better" far less so. Fedora already has an offering for the high end (x86_64; which also implies many other performance improving differences)… -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
