Jakub's Recommendations for ia32 Support

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:32:48AM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:05:32PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> It extends to other architectures as well, fwiw.  On PowerPC, you can
>> have optimized libraries for ppc970,power4,power5,power6, and cell I
>> believe.  For Fedora, optimized libraries are built for power6/power6x.
>
>On powerpc the answer is also simple.  Having too many sets of libraries is
>a maintainance nightmare and build time killer (ppc/ppc64 glibc already
>builds twice to three times as long as i?86/x86_64, having 3 extra sets of
>libs would mean waiting for glibc to build forever).  And the gains aren't
>very noticeable.

Oh, yes I know that.  I was just explaining that the optimized library
mechanism that glibc has extends to things other than SSE.  I wasn't asking
for more tuned libraries.

josh