Texstar wrote: >> For the vast majority of applications you'll see no real increase in speed >> at all between compiling for i586 and compiling for athlon-xp. > > > Is that also the reason why the rpmrc file in 9.1 doesnt contain the > additional optimization options that were present in the 9.0 rpmrc? No real > increase in the speed of the applications?
It was originally an accident that they came up with a stupid excuse to defend. You now build packages "for distribution" by default, and it keeps newbies from using any other compiler flags than what Mandrake wants because they "don't support" it otherwise.
