Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:06:10PM +0100, Richard Thompson wrote: >> I was wondering why debian doesn't have a port of packages optimised for >> i686, I realise they have support for i386, which obviously incudes >> everything from an intel 386 to the latest and greatest intel and amd >> processors (running in 32bit), ultimatley the i686 already has 'support' >> however I just thought it would be great if a port was available where >> the packages had been compiled specifically for i686 as I have noticed >> that when I use i686 optimised distro's such as arch, or even slackware >> there is a noticable performance difference. > > This comes up on the list from time to time. The general answer is that > packages that benefit from processor-specific compilation (e.g. the kernel, > Marillat's mplayer "unofficial" packages, etc.) do exist in > processor-specific forms. The vast majority of packages, however, do not > benefit sufficiently from processor-specific compilation to justify the > complication of supporting extra versions of the packages, much less the > infrastructure to automatically select the correct package for your > processor when using apt. > >> Richard Thompson > --Greg
The installation manual (http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en) says that the "i386" architecture packages support *i486* processors and later. There is also a libc6-686 package optimized for i686. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
