Re: Compiling for i686
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 19:27, Sean Fraley wrote:
> > Does anyone know if compiling for i686 instead of for i386 would give any
> > speed increase greater than very marginal?
> > Any real-life tests anywhere?
>
> As far as I can tell, compiling just KDE for i686 will provide a barely
> noticeable speed increase. This is because KDE spends a large amount of
A bit off topic but changing from 2.95 to gcc 3.2 has reduced cpu usage in
many applications on my system by as much as 30%. Particular noticable is the
change in mplayer which is now much less cpu hungry.
Anders
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