Le jeudi 03 novembre 2005 à 02:38 -0800, Nick Jacobs a écrit : > In-Reply-To=<200510091703.28199.neroden@twcny.rr.com> > > You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a > significant amount of work should be done to restore > support for a processor that has not been manufactured > for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance for > the 99.99999% of x86 users who have Pentium/Athlon/or > better? > > Sometimes, reading Debian mailing lists, I get the > impression that I've wandered into a painting by > Salvador Dali. Sometimes, when reading Debian mailing lists, I'm wondering why there are so many clueless people. I guess you're one of those let's-compile-everything-with-march=686 Gentoo lovers. In which case I suggest you come up with serious figures of a large variety of tests ran on a large variety of CPUs to prove this kind of assertion. I also suggest that you read http://funroll-loops.org/ first. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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