> Is it possible, as some people mentioned, to recompile packages to take > advantage of gcc-pentium. This could be like the m68k port. I'm in favour of this - as long as the packages compiled for the 386 are still available. I've got a few 386's and 486's that are running Debian. As long as we have enough disk space - why not optimize for everything out there? Optimizing for Pentium seems like an excellent place to start, since they are so common. Any idea what the performance gain would be? This might be a step towards enhancing the packaging system to handle source dependencies, and automated compiling/optimizing. If we were to support super-optimized distributions, then it would be a could way to test out an automated building system for packages. Even if the performance gain is slight, it would make sense if the effort to support it was not great. Cheers, - Jim
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