Re: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?

["Bruce W. Bigby" <bbigby rochester rr com>]

Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce W. Bigby [mailto:bbigby@rochester.rr.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 5:34 PM
> > To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> > Subject: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?
> >
> >
> > Can the GNOME people please provide a i586 version of the latest GNOME
> > so that we Pentium owners don't have to rebuild the source
> > RPM's just so
> > that we can make the most of our hardware? I and, I'm sure,
> > many Pentium
> > owners would appreciate the added speed that i586 binaries would
> > provide--not to mention the convenience.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, has anybody actually noticed a difference in speed
> between i386 and i586 compiled RPMs?  I've got a P-II 400 with 128MB of RAM,
> so EVERYTHING is fast.  It doesn't work, but it does so VERY quickly.  :)
>         Greg
> 
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If you are running on a superfast P-II @ 400 Mhz, you certainly won't
see a difference between i386 binaries and i586/i686 binaries. However,
if you're running on a Dual P5-133 like me, although it's dual, you
still need all of the help that you can get. i586 binaries tend to run
about 15 to 30 percent faster than i386 binaries. This matters when the
top speed of each of your processors is 133 Mhz. I know that my kernel
sped up when I rebuilt for i586-SMP.
-- 
Bruce W. Bigby
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