Rebuilding packages

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello WipeOut,

> Most packages for most distro's seem to be compiled for i386.. Obviously 
> this is for comparibility with older systems but surely this has a 
> performance implication..

This question has been asked many times on the redhat-list and
redhat-install-list, and the answer is that the performance gain by
rebuilding all the rpms is usually neglectible. Of course there are
exceptions (audio and video come to mind).

Bye,
Leonard.

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mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research