Le dimanche 26 septembre 2010 à 01:16 +0200, Renaud MICHEL a écrit : > Hello > On dimanche 26 septembre 2010 at 00:12, Tux99 wrote : > > > I'm not speaking about exclusion but about including or optimizing for > > > arch and hardware that NOBODY will use anymore, because can't. > > > > The optimization you are talking about (which will increase > > performance by a few percentage points at most, not noticeable at all > > in practice) means that the distro will be unusable for others. > > Would it be possible to have the base system and non-graphical tools > compiled for i586, and the big desktops (KDE, gnome) and multimedia > applications compiled for i686 or better? > > Would it be possible, in the (yet to be setup) build system that each > package define the minimum architecture it want to support? > In such a system, the maintainers could decide if it is worth to provide a > more optimized package or if the compatibility with older hardware should be > maintained.
The idea of i686 to i586 was already discussed to death in the past : http://ideas.mandriva.com/en/idees/show.php?id=77 Yet, no one gave real numbers in one year, nor on the previous cooker threads. Until there is real way to measure improvement ( and by real, I mean nothing related to a variation of http://greenfly.net/mes.html ), I think all discussion will be a little bit useless. -- Michael Scherer _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list Mageia-dev@mageia.org https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev