Texstar wrote:
For the vast majority of applications you'll see no real increase in speed
at all between compiling for i586 and compiling for athlon-xp.
Is that also the reason why the rpmrc file in 9.1 doesnt contain the
additional optimization options that were present in the 9.0
Adam Williamson wrote:
The problem is that optimising for your system sounds all l33t and cool
but really, it's not, it's a huge waste of time. The only meaty
difference between i586 and the later processors so far as GCC cares are
the additional instruction sets, MMX, SSE and 3D Now! These