On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:24:37PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 04:49:55PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Debian already hurts the x86 users (IMHO) by giving them a compiler
> > targetted for processor which, I'd bet, is used by less than 2% of the
> > user base. This is just one more performace hit on top of all the others;
> > I really wouldn't worry about it unless/until the compiler is targeted
> > to something more useful, e.g., i486, i586, or (quelle suprise) i686,
> > and for those cases the atomic operations will be automatically corrected.
>
> If it weren't for the disk/archivespace/maintenance/PITA cost I'd
> suggest binary-i686. Things being what they are, maybe we should poll
> for people interested in new versions of Debian on i386; I doubt we can
> drop 586, since I've seen uses of 'em recently...
I wasn't suggesting dropping 486/586 entirely, just providing binaries
optimized for 686.
Could even make gcc-3.x a virtual package, and let
gcc-3.x-i386 // works for anything
gcc-3.x-i686 // particularly for the majority of the users
both Provide: the virtual package.
Phil
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