[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Tue Sep 21 23:38:01 CEST 2010

Dnia 2010-09-21, o godz. 23:34:07
+Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> napisał(a):
+
+> On Monday 20 September 2010 23:31:21 Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote:
+> > Dnia 2010-09-20, o godz. 11:36:01
+> > 
+> > André Machado <afmachado at dcemail.com> napisał(a):
+> > > Guys,
+> > > 
+> > > Mandriva - and many other distros, such like Arch Linux - are
+> > > optimized to i686 architeture, what means Pentium II. Despite the
+> > > need to keep compatibility with older machines, what would be the
+> > > problem if packages was compiled aganist Pentium III or 4? Would
+> > > the system gain more speed?
+> > 
+> > x86 is a dead end. It would be nice to see sse/sse2 enabled by
+> > default for x86_64
+> 
+> It always has been enabled there.
+> 
+
+iirc it wasn't because of some geode compatibility crap, but i can be
+wrong here
+
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+Regards
+TPG
+
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