[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

[Tomasz Paweł Gajc]

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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