Re: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?

["Daniel Hauck" <xdesign hotmail com>]

I know it makes little sense NOT to compile for i586... or i686 for that
matter.  Who would run GNOME on a 386????

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce W. Bigby <bbigby@rochester.rr.com>
To: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 21:50
Subject: Re: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?


> 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
> http://home.rochester.rr.com/bigbyofrocny
> Do for others what you would want others to do for you.
>
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