Once upon a time, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live <creed7m3live@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > I hope that the programs start to be compiled for at least 586 and > higher applications. (maybe more efficient programs) Red Hat has been compiling the packages that matter for specific architectures for years. There isn't any point in compiling _everything_ for anything other than i386; do you think "ls" or "vi" will run faster somehow? Also, everything is built optimized for i686 but using only the i386 instruction set. That way, it is optimized for higher CPUs (affects memory and instruction layout), but will run on any x86 CPU. The kernel and the C and SSL libraries are built for multiple architectures. Some of the other performance intensive software (like some of the 3D code IIRC) builds multiple architecture support into one package and selects the best one at runtime. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
