On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:51:14AM +0200, Patrice Fortier wrote: > Le mer 31/03/2004 à 22:01, Matthias Urlichs a écrit : > > Hi, Sean Harshbarger wrote: > > > > > It would be nice to have support for optimized > > > binaries. IMHO it would help Debian out a lot. > > > > As far as I recall, the performance gains from compiling everything with > > your-favorite-optimizer-settings aren't _that_ great -- typically smaller > > than what you'd gain by waiting a couple of months before buying your > > computer. > > I do agree with you for most of the stuff we use on our computers. > > But I'd like to point out that it could be interesting for a couple of > packages like libc and cypto libs (like libssl) to have a binary package > (with generic i686 support for example, as 686 is now at least 7 years > old). Oh you mean like they both already do? For libc: libc6-i686 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimized] For openssl: libssl0.9.7 - SSL shared libraries <- already includes optimized libs /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.7 Chris
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