On Saturday 19 July 2003 6:53 am, Chris Adams wrote: > 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. I was just about to write the same thing. [RANT] Now then: where's my Pentium4-optimized RPMs? The 1990s are long gone and GCC v2.x with it. It's a shame that the "-march=pentium4" and "-msse2" switches in GCC v3.x are going unused in a major distro like Red Hat's. [/RANT] -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
