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Re: Debian for i586



* Piotr Roszatycki said:

> > the discussion was that if you optimize for a Pentium, then that's ALL it will
> > be faster on.  K6, K6-2, P2, P3, and Athlon will not see any improvements.  This
> > makes the number of people "helped" by the effort minimal considering how fast
> > CPU technology is progressing.
> 
> Yes, I remember.
> I'm not a marketing specialist, but processor optimalization is a fact,
> so many people install Mandrake because they belive it is faster, i.e.
> than Debian.
Well, wouldn't it be enough to prove that they are wrong by showing figures
that P5-optimized code isn't at all faster on, e.g. AMD-K6 or P6? More, it
can be even slower.

marek

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