Re: i686 Port

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:06:10 +0100 (BST)
"Richard Thompson" <binary@freedom.prodigynetwork.co.uk> wrote:

> I was wondering why debian doesn't have a port of packages optimised for
> i686, I realise they have support for i386, which obviously incudes
> everything from an intel 386 to the latest and greatest intel and amd
> processors (running in 32bit), ultimatley the i686 already has 'support'
> however I just thought it would be great if a port was available where the
> packages had been compiled specifically for i686 as I have noticed that
> when I use i686 optimised distro's such as arch, or even slackware there
> is a noticable performance difference.

I'm no expert, but I believe the thinking is that most of the processor
dependent code is in libc6, for which we do have the -i686 version, and
the kernel, which also comes in -686 flavors. 

> Richard Thompson

Celejar
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