On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:32:48AM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: >On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:05:32PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> It extends to other architectures as well, fwiw. On PowerPC, you can >> have optimized libraries for ppc970,power4,power5,power6, and cell I >> believe. For Fedora, optimized libraries are built for power6/power6x. > >On powerpc the answer is also simple. Having too many sets of libraries is >a maintainance nightmare and build time killer (ppc/ppc64 glibc already >builds twice to three times as long as i?86/x86_64, having 3 extra sets of >libs would mean waiting for glibc to build forever). And the gains aren't >very noticeable. Oh, yes I know that. I was just explaining that the optimized library mechanism that glibc has extends to things other than SSE. I wasn't asking for more tuned libraries. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
