Re: Note Pentium Optimized only really helps P5 CPUs ...
- To: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
- Cc: Anderson MacKay <mackay@rice.edu>, "R. Brock Lynn" <brock@cyberdude.com>, bakins@stsi.net, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Note Pentium Optimized only really helps P5 CPUs ...
- From: Stephen Pitts <smpitts@midsouth.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:47:11 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19990705094711.D11782@orwell.midsouth.rr.com>
- Mail-followup-to: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>, Anderson MacKay <mackay@rice.edu>, "R. Brock Lynn" <brock@cyberdude.com>, bakins@stsi.net, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19990704125737.E9494@mini.gt.owl.de>; from Florian Lohoff on Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:57:37PM +0200
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On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:57:37PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> I like the idea of having optimized packages for the High-End users
> but i think it will cause a LOT bigger ftp sites (EV4 EV5 EV6 -> 3 times
> more alpha) (pentium, ppro, k7 -> 3 times bigger i386).
>
> I would more like the idea of "local" compiler options - Means - If i am
> able to do "apt-get compile apache" it should use MY compiler
> (e.g. pgcc) and the optimizations i would like to have. This optimization
> issue is only interesting for "High-End" users and they have some
> cpu-cycles left on installation.
>
> ---/etc/compilersettings-----
> CC=pgcc
> CFLAGS=-mpentium
> -----------------------------
>
> Flo
> --
> Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5241-470566
> Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three). (RFC 1925)
>
>
Half of what you asked for is already there: As of 0.3.6,
you can "apt-get -b source apache" to rebuild a package.
--
Stephen Pitts
smpitts@midsouth.rr.com
webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
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