Please learn how to turn on automatic line wrapping on your mail client. (I forced wrapped it so I could reply) On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:51:24AM +0100, Xavier Roche wrote: > I know this has been discussed before (the 586 optimized packages), > and I don't want to fire another-yet-potential flame, but considering > an "x86-x586" arch is potentially similar to "x86-64" (different /lib > place, potentially same package names, possibility to install different > flavours ..) From what I have heard in the past i586 in particular is not a good target to optimize for since it slows down faster chips (P2/P3/P4/etc) more than using standard i386. But it could be interesting to see binaries for each flavor, eg P4 optimized binaries. Chris
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