* 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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