Re: How about sparcv7, sparcv8, and sparcv9 binary debian packages? [Was Re: improving ssh2 performance on SPARCv8/SPARCv9 systems]
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:26:38AM +0000, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
> Christian Jönsson@lists.debian-sparc@Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:32:22 +0200:
> > Come to think of it, has there been any discussions of having, say,
> > sparcv7, sparcv8, and sparcv9 binary debian packages instead of just
> > sparc ones? Well, sparcv7 would be sparcv7, right?
> >
> That'd be a huuuuuge waste of mirror space, I think. Just look how large
> the archives are already. Some CPU-critical packages can be recompiled
> and put on a separate apt repository, but creating two more
> architectures for speed's sake would be a waste.
Oh, I wasn't thinking of the *entire* release, rather, as you put it,
speed critical packages. I would think, though, that there are quite a
few with reasonable speed increase. I'm not sure, but it might be
v7->v8 gives more than v8->v9, that's more of 32->64 bit, right?
However, there's also the (upcoming?) possibility to configure for
sparcv9-*, that'll be interesting when it hits the masses :-)
> (A similar discussion about i686-optimized packages has been on Debian
> Planet <http://www.debianplanet.org/> before..)
I figured, it's exactly the same issues we're talking about here, right?
Cheers,
/ChJ
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