Good optimize idea! (Re: ramblings about old hardware, gzip, bz2, and pentium opts)

To: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@zednet.lv>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Good optimize idea! (Re: ramblings about old hardware, gzip, bz2, and pentium opts)
From: Onno <Onno@Willem.Alexanderschool.nl>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 10:35:44 +0100
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At 03:04 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
[snip]
>Didnt mean : use 486-or-better-only instructions
>Mean : use optimalizations for 486 using only 386-or-better instructions
>Is this ok ?
>486 is much more similar to modern hardware than 386 was.

This sounds reasonable. 

The old i386 stuff can still run it, but the binaries are 
optimized for somewhat modern hardsware. 

Great idea indeed!

Regards,

Onno

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