On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:03 +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Monday January 31 2005 15:21, andras.lorincz@gmail.com wrote: [snip] > For most packages, it really doesn't matter. It doesn't make much sense to > have a shell or about any other interactive program use MMX and SSE > extensions since those programs spend 99.9% of their time waiting for user > input. > > There are some rare cases where a customized build will offer an advantage, > all of them CPU intensive programs like raytracers, graphics applications, > A/V codecs and games. Usually simply building a package from the debian > sources will apply the correct processor-specific extensions, but it doesn't > hurt to look through the debian/rules file before a build. And, often, these types of programs have built-in CPU optimization, or there are CPU-specific packages. $ apt-cache search atlas3 | cut -d\ -f1 | sort atlas3-3dnow atlas3-3dnow-dev atlas3-base atlas3-base-dev atlas3-doc atlas3-headers atlas3-sse atlas3-sse2 atlas3-sse2-dev atlas3-sse-dev atlas3-test $ apt-cache search mplayer | grep ^mplay | sort mplayer-386 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux mplayer-586 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux mplayer-686 - transitional dummy package which can be safely removed mplayer-doc - Documentation for mplayer mplayer-fonts - Fonts for mplayer mplayer-k6 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux mplayer-k7 - transitional dummy package which can be safely removed mplayer-nogui - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. If 1/2 of all US marriages end in divorce, and there are a good number of 3rd, 4th, etc marriages, then more than 1/2 of all 1st marriages will be permanent.
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