On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 16:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Wednesday, 17.08.2005 at 09:49 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > That's about right: libc6 is available as libc6-i686, and there are
Do you see any measurable benefits from using libc6-i686? > kernel packages available for i686 too. On my system I also see > loop-aes and one or two others optimized for i686 too, but this as Ron Crypto will always perform better when optimized for the hardware. Note, also, that some apps and libraries do CPU auto-sensing, so that only one binary is needed. > says is the exception rather than the norm. > > If you want to optimized for your own architecture, then 'apt-get source > postgresql' and change the build options to make your own :-) This > should be fairly simple. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won't do." George Orwell, 1940, reviewing /Mein Kampf/
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