2010/9/21 Stéphane Téletchéa <stele...@gmail.com>: > > 2010/9/20 Olivier FAURAX <oliv...@faurax.fr> >> >> Le 20/09/2010 21:14, Florian Hubold a écrit : >> > AFAIK mandriva packages are not optimized/built for i686 >> > (anything above Pentium Pro) but for i586. And i suppose >> > that's not gonna change. >> >> If I remember well, the long i586/i686 debate on cooker has been >> terminated with 2 facts : there are no massive improvements on software >> X (I don't remember which one) and we have to keep compatibility with >> some netbooks (OEM with mandriva). >> >> If mageia doesn't target these netbooks and if you can show real >> improvement, I think this can be discussed. >> >> Have a nice day >> > > Well, since we are *not* that linked to Mandriva, we could avoid this > problem by producing a netbook edition if needed. Why restricting our work > to i586/x86-64?
One more edition => more work; also compiling packages with different specific flags for one particular edition is much more work, I am thinking about package repositories/updates too.... (just my humble non-dev POV :)). > > For some programs, there is a significant boost in using sse/sse2 (for > instance the mlt library, povray rendering, etc). > > I've enabled them explicitly in mandriva some time ago in the x86-64 build, > and it should be the default there. If some arch do not comply to the "sse2" > demand, then we can discuss this on a "specific basis, but not limit > everyone on this... > > Stef > > > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-dev mailing list > Mageia-dev@mageia.org > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev > > -- Ahmad Samir _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list Mageia-dev@mageia.org https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev