Tom Smith wrote: > Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes > up is... > > If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support on a Pentium II, will > the program run slower than it otherwise would? (Some of the programs I > have are compiled and then distributed to servers with different > CPUs--P-IIs and P-IVs, mainly.) > speaking of manually added options to CFLAGS*, not of use flags
The only place where mathematics count on a server is encryption ? (notice the question mark) Mayor part of server software use integer math that are not so enhanced by optimizations. The code produced is less stable, and difficult to debug, this bring to the question: why take the risk ? just my two cents -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
