Re: [Fwd: Re: i686 Port]
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:58:56 +0100 (BST)
"Richard Thompson" <binary@freedom.prodigynetwork.co.uk> wrote:
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: i686 Port
> From: "Richard Thompson" <binary@freedom.prodigynetwork.co.uk>
> Date: Tue, August 28, 2007 8:54 pm
> To: "Celejar" <celejar@gmail.com>
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>
> > 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
> Yes, I expect you are right about that, but there are other things such as
> services which, if they were i686 optimised I would expect to see a
What do you mean by services? Is there userland (outside the kernel)
TCP/IP networking code which is 686 specific?
> performance increase, I am also no expert, I was just jealous of arch's
> speed, and also suprisingly slackware's speed, which would suggest they've
> got something right
Are you sure that you're comparing apples to apples? Are you running
the exact same DE, general system load, daemons, etc.? I'm not doubting
you, I'm just trying to nail down the comparison precisely.
> Richard Thompson
Celejar
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