RFC: Optimizing for 386
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Thu Jan 20 00:10:39 UTC 2005
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:08:22AM -0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> With the exception of the kernel and glibc, all RPM's are optimized for 386 architecture. This is a waste of system resources. Study after study shows that you can achieve a 10% - 40% performance improvement my optimizing code for a specific architecture. Windows XP may only be optimized for a Pentium, but by golly, at least the whole thing is optimized, not just the kernel and the C library.
>
The number of people who don't check the archives first is regrettably not
a handful ;)
The files are currently mostly PIV optimised
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