Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:47:55PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At 21 Jun 2003 00:27:18 +0200,
> Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > RedHat provide glibc for i386, i586 and i686. Why doesn't Debian
> > provide several packages for i*86 when the package can be optimized a
> > lot depending on the CPU type?
>
> We're planning. i686 optimized binary does not work on my machine, so
> it's currently dropped. We need to check whether it's ok to upgrade
> smoothly or not.
There used to be libc6-686 and so on, but they caused a lot of problems with
upgrades. Then they were re-enabled, then disabled again in the same
release. I wasn't able to measure a significant performance increase with
the optimized library anyway, so I haven't missed it.
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- mdz
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