On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:53 -0300, Leonardo Lopes Pereira wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:07:37 -0500 > "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a good question, If I need to say what kind of computers we > need to support TODAY, I think that still important the support of > i486 and i586. I do not know where do you live, but they are very used > here, in Brazil. But if you think that this project will support > computers of 2015 (I think that I am very optmist), I beleave that > support to i586 is needed.
Leonardo: The performance gap between the fastest i486 and a current Pentium-IV is nearly three decimal orders of magnitude. Regardless of what instruction set Hurd compiles for, there is simply no way that this large a range can be effectively supported by a single set of applications. Try running FC4 on a 486 and you'll see what I'm talking about. I'm not saying that dropping the 486 is a desirable thing. I'm saying that we are kidding ourselves if we think it's going to be done well. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
