Why are there only i686 and i586 Version of glibc and kernel?

[James Harrison]

I bought 2 PII PCs that had 64mb of ram and FC3 still ran ok (a bit slow
though- added more ram and its OK now).  



--- Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 09:22, dragoran wrote:
> > Why not add a glibc and kernel which are optimized for pentium 4 in FC3 
> > ? This would increase the perfomance on newer PC but also works on older 
> > ones by still including the i686 and i586 versions.
> 
> P4's are compatible with i686 and the optimisations are also quite
> similar, although not entirely. Most likely we'll be optimising the
> entire distro for P4 while keeping compatibility with i386 or i486. 
> (Code optimized for P4 runs just as fast as code for pII/pIII on those).
> 
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