On Monday 31 January 2005 06:21 am, andras.lorincz@gmail.com wrote: > The debian packages contain in their names i386. That means, as far as > I know, that these programs are compiled to be able to run on at least > on intel 386 processors. But does it also mean that if are run on > newer machines, they run slower because don't exploit the capabilities > of the newer processors? Very rarely. The packages that benefit from subarchitecture optimizations have packages for those subarchitectures built already (like the kernel, mplayer, etc). > Is it worth to compile the packages before installing them, and if so > are there any configurations to be made to get a more optimized > binary? Only if you're a Gentoo ricer, in which your system will go 50 or 60 times faster in your head alone. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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