Re: Pentium Optimized
But then you'd need a whole SLEW of optimized packages...
Pentium optimized, Pentium MMX, PentiumPro, Pentium II, Pentium II Xeon,
Pentium III, Pentium III Xeon, Celeron, K5, K6, K6-2, K6-3, K7... And
that's just the i386 platform. When you add SPARC, UltraSPARC, Alpha,
m68k, etc, etc... you get a whole LOT of Debian distributions.
I have to agree with whoever said using the source packages is the best
way to go for CPU-optimized packages.
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Marant Jerome wrote:
>
> What about optimizing time-consuming applications ?
> I mean GNOME, Wine, XServers, GCC itself, etc. We could thus save
> a lot of CPU time.
>
> And this should be usefull for those (like me) that have a basic Pentium.
>
> We don't care for small applications.
>
> JM.
>
> >From: Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
> >To: bakins@stsi.net
> >CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> >Subject: Re: Pentium Optimized
> >Date: 06 Jul 1999 14:29:37 +0200
> >
> >"M. Brian Akins" <bakins@stsi.net> writes:
> >
> > > I was wondering if there was any interest in putting together a set of
> >pentium
> > > optimized debian packages???
> > >
> > > I have done a few for my use by using pgcc (patched egcs) with the
> > > -march=pentium -mcpu=pentium (as weel as =pentiumpro). But I will admit
> >I'm a
> > > newbie in the dpkg world and was wondering had this idead been
> >contemplated
> > > seriously before.
> > >
> > > Thanks M. Brian Akins
> > >
> > > (If this has been asked a hunderd times before, or if I'm out of line,
> >please
> > > let me know)
> >
> >What for? Which packages take up all your CPU time so that you need
> >faster bins? Do those 1% speedup realy matter to you?
> >
> >Its the same problem as whether one should use -O2 or -O9.
> >
> >In general it completly irrelevant to use highly optimized code, but
> >you risk having a lot of problems with it due to compiler bugs.
> >
> >The only packages I think would gain from this are:
> >
> >xaos (it uses -O9 for the critical functions), xfractint, mesa, some
> >numeric libs.
> >
> >If you know more, tell me.
> >
> >And for those few packages, go and compile them yourself, if speed
> >matters for you. For Debian its just not worth the effort and space.
> >
> >May the Source be with you.
> > Goswin
> >
> >
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