'ello, Recently my housemates have been compiling debian using a modified apt-build that we made support distcc. It is producing big speed-ups (and space savings, which surprised me) on our x86 (athlon) boxen. I was wondering if I would see much benefit from doing the same for my PBG4 -- I mean with x86 the i386 packages are a long way behind in terms of instruction set. Is this the same for PowerPC?
AFAIK the instruction set has not changed much over the years (relative to x86). I suppose the only noticeable benefit would come from AltiVec optimisations and I'm wondering if this would make as big a difference as the leap from i386 to k7 did. bye just now, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
