Re: two more architectures?
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:49:04PM -0400, Oleg wrote:
> Why doesn't Debian add two more architectures: P4 and Athlon4? A bit more
> space will be used on Debian mirrors,
We're losing mirrors due to disk space concerns as it is.
> but the bandwidth will not increase (unless more people start using
> Debian) and the extra maintenance in most cases will be limited to
> CPU-specific compiler options. The obvious advantage is the speed
> increase from better optimizations.
You get most of the speed increases by recompiling a very small number
of things. It's not worth the added complexity trying to do it for
everything.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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