Re: SUMMARY: pentium optimized debian discussion
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> You can't compare egcs to gcc 2.7, egcs is SO MUCH BETTER that it's not
> even funny :P
Ok. Then the figures I gave before about pentium optimized stuff seeming to
be 15% better on a pentium are probably bogus too.
After I move this weekend I'll redo the test will all egcs compiled stuff.
> I think it's fairly obvios that simply be recompiling
> everything with egcs will get a stunning speed increase on older machines
> and is enough to offset any nominal loss from pentium vs 386 timings.
>
> I vote that we dump the multi-arch proposal and just penitum optimize with
> pegcs some critical tools like tar, gzip and maybe dpkg.
What about things like, say, povray, that have a definite speed increase
when optimized?
> Joey, what was the size difference for the gzip binary?
joey@kite:~>dir =gzip
-rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 48556 Jul 25 20:30 /bin/gzip*
joey@kite:~>dir /mnt/box/bin/gzip
-rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 45660 Apr 25 22:07 /mnt/box/bin/gzip*
The first is pentium optimized.
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