On Wed, 2003-08-06 15:52:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jan-Benedict Glaw said: > >...and up to now, I haven't seen real hard numbers that show that > >optimizing for i486 does really make anything noticeable faster. From > > I've given such numbers for the use of i486 instructions. The speed > increase applies to specific applications only and is quite large in > those applications. I don't think there is any significant use of the
That's what I expected:)
> Making the emulator available for the latest kernel is certainly
> important. Volunteering? ;-)
Yes - currently in Oopsing state:)
> >Maybe we'd go another way and build two distributions - i386 as well as
> >i486 or i586. I bet there are still i386 machines out there, but
> Feel free; this appears to have been rejected by the Debian project in
> favor of the emulator. (I can certainly understand why, since it's a
> lot easier!)
Well, I'm fully behind that. Don't get me as the "there's only i386 out
there and some small number of Pentium+ machines" man. I *know* that
it's the other way around.
Would Debian accept two ix86 distributions? One i386 and, say, i[56]86?
I'd even volunteer to rebuild all the packages... What's needed for
that? Basically some changes to dpkg --print-architecture, if I'm
right... As well as changing a number of configure statements...
MfG, JBG
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