Re: RFC: pentium optimized debian
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 02:19:52AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> There was some talk on the list a few months ago about whether a
> pentium optimized version of debian makes sense. Some points against are
> that:
>
> - pentium optimized binaries tend to be bigger
> - only some packages will benefit from pentium optimization
>
> Some points in favor are that:
>
> - pentium optimized binaries of things that are CPU bound tend to be at
> least 10% faster by my benchmarks. Stampede linux claims 10 - 30% speed
> improvement.
The pgcc group claim something like 5->15%, 30% in really exceptional cases
with lots of hand tuning. Now that egcs and gcc 8.1 are out I imagine that
these figures are lower. I emailed Stampede against this and other outright
lies in their webpage and nothing was done about it.
> - PR value.
[snip - great work on dpkg!]
Adrian
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