Re: Pentium optimised vs not
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:58:18AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working in what is a Mandrake shop, but relatively open minded about
> Debian. I'm already making inroads into getting Debian used as the distro
> of choice for infrastructure boxes. Thanks to FAI. Nice work Thomas.
>
> Mandrake alledgedly compile all their binaries with Pentium optimisation.
> I was recently asked if Debian's binaries were optimised. I didn't think
> they were. I was wondering, in reality, if there were any significant
> performance gain from doing it?
>
> Let's say I wanted to keep a local package repository build from the
> source packages, how trivial is it when (re) building the packages to
> enable Pentium optimisation?
Take a look at the pentium-builder package. Once installed, it just
requires setting an environment variable to force pentium optimisation
during compilation.
- Chris
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