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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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see shy jo


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