On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:02:23AM +1000, debian wrote: > There are a couple of linux distro's out there (stampede + enoch) that have > optimised binaries for a specific cpu (eg. K6, pentium, p2 etc) they claim > pretty good performance improvements. > > I mentoned this a few days on irc and got grilled pretty badly for even > suggesting it....(i feel safer posting it here) > > I would have thought that it would be fairly easy to change the compile > option in the debian source packages (im not very familiar with the format) > so it would be easy to make cpu specific builds of debian. > > I know 486's (and maybe a few 386's) are still used and can perform valuable > jobs. But the vast majority of users would see a performance increase if in > some way had access to binaries optimised for there cpu. > > Am i offtrack in thinking this ? > It depends.. if you are suggesting that Debian only support a small class of CPUs, yes. You are offtrack. Debian is specificly trying to support 486 computers as well as the newer stuff. If, on the other hand, you're talking about doing something for yourself or for some derived distribution... more power to you... There's nothing wrong with thinking that... you'll get a reaction thinking that Debian should do that... see the difference? -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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