[Fwd: Re: i686 Port]

• Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: i686 Port From: "Richard Thompson" <binary@freedom.prodigynetwork.co.uk> Date: Tue, August 28, 2007 8:54 pm To: "Celejar" <celejar@gmail.com>

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> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:06:10 +0100 (BST)
> "Richard Thompson" <binary@freedom.prodigynetwork.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering why debian doesn't have a port of packages optimised for
>> i686, I realise they have support for i386, which obviously incudes
>> everything from an intel 386 to the latest and greatest intel and amd
>> processors (running in 32bit), ultimatley the i686 already has 'support'
>> however I just thought it would be great if a port was available where
>> the
>> packages had been compiled specifically for i686 as I have noticed that
>> when I use i686 optimised distro's such as arch, or even slackware there
>> is a noticable performance difference.
>
> I'm no expert, but I believe the thinking is that most of the processor
> dependent code is in libc6, for which we do have the -i686 version, and
> the kernel, which also comes in -686 flavors.
>
>> Richard Thompson
>
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Yes, I expect you are right about that, but there are other things such as services which, if they were i686 optimised I would expect to see a performance increase, I am also no expert, I was just jealous of arch's speed, and also suprisingly slackware's speed, which would suggest they've got something right

Richard Thompson

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