On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:52:26PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> - Build all packages for i686 (this requires cmov)

This cuts out AMD Geode ...

and for what ...

>               P4 2.4Ghz       Athlon 3400+    Core2Duo E6850  Atom N270
> march=i686/   -1.1%           +2.0%           +0.9%           +0.6%
>  mtune=generic
> march=i586/   +0.3%           -0.3%           -0.2%           +1.3%
>  mtune=atom
> march=i686/   -1.5%           +1.2%           +0.5%           +1.7%
>  mtune=atom

This just doesn't look worthwhile at all.

My proposal is that we actually start to 'downgrade' x86, start
compiling for baseline i386, and try to support people running Fedora
on really old hardware, through projects like the Minimal Platform
feature.

Rich.

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