Re: Migration to Pentium?
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > Maybe you have seen the Stampede Linux distribution
> > (http://www.stampede.org/). They promise a speed improvement of
> > 10% - 30% compared to i386 binaries. I would like to get this from
> > Debian, too.
> I've *never* seen any proof of those claimed 10-30%.
The 30% end of it probably comes from the original Intel work - they
hacked GCC until they saw 30% improvements in a given set of benchmarks.
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