Re: CPU specific/optimized Debian builds ?
On Thursday 23 May 2002 2:29 pm, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Sounds like your trying to be a troll.
Not necessarily. Most computers spend the majority of their time idle. In
this case is it really worth making it spend a fraction more time idle?
Performance hotspots - the kernel, Mesa, mplayer etc. - can be optimized by
hand and CPU detection is really not too hard to do, and this is the Right
Way(TM). Different arches for different Intel CPUs is insane, it would mean a
vast increase in packages. A simple mechanism to allow specific packages to
be recompiled on a users machine is a useful idea, but I suspect it would
only result in people realising that an SSE2/3DNow version of vim is really
not that spectacular.
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