Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

[Thomas Dodd]

Steven Boswell wrote:
> about them.  But is that the kind of change RedHat even wants?  They're
> not supporting it now; do they have a good reason that hasn't occurred
> to me?

Not many packages really benifit from the optimizations.
The kerenel was only split in the 6.x series (I think)

Prior to that everything was 386 versions.
Compare the speed of ghostscript for
386 and with march=686. I doubt you'll
notixe the difference.

        -Thomas

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