On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:48:26PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > >I'd drop the sub-pentiums (i.e. 386 and 486) entirely. Not that my vote > >would count... > > > > I once read somewhere that you should _never_ compile in 486 > optimizations for use in processors other than the 486. Apparently > since 486 optimized code is padded a lot with NOPs. > > Apparently you are much better off on a Pentium or Athlon with > i386 optimized code than i486 optimized one. > > > Hence if we are going to migrate from i386, we should not > go to CPU like i486 and just move to a Pentium Classic > code (i586). I vaguely recall something similar about the i586. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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