[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Tue Sep 21 22:34:07 CEST 2010


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.

-- 
Anssi Hannula


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