>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Pollock <debian-lists@andrew.net.au> writes: [...] Andrew> Mandrake alledgedly compile all their binaries with Pentium Andrew> optimisation. I was recently asked if Debian's binaries were Andrew> optimised. I didn't think they were. I was wondering, in Andrew> reality, if there were any significant performance gain from Andrew> doing it? No, Debian doesn't optimize. FWIW, back in the dark ages, when I was using RedHat, when there was no reason for me to use their package manager so I just hand-compiled whatever I wanted to install, I recompiled all the core stuff (XFree86, glibc, I think all the GNOME stuff, etc.) with Pentium optimizations, but it didn't seem to really make much of a difference. IMHO, it's more trouble than it's worth to rebuild everything Pentium optimized. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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