When on Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Eddie Torres wrote, I replied:
I doubt that adding the i686 instructions would gain you much, but never
having done that nor actually knowing much about the assemblers for
either of these I could be very wrong about that, especially for
particular packages for whom the expanded instruction set might be
especially advantageous. I'd guess you'd get way better mileage out
of a compiler with the best optimizing strategies. That said, I can say
that you establish /usr/src/linux after you download some kernel source
package, and then
ln /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 /usr/src/linux
or something similar related to the particular kernel source package that
you'd downloaded. Run time on some long-running package(s), re-compile
and install a new kernel using -i686 /etc, reboot the re-run time on
the package(s) and let us know the results. The greater variety of
packages that you choose, the more illuminating the results will be.
The resultant e-mail to the list should be at least entertaining.
> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 18:42:52 -0600
> From: Eddie Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: Storm List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [SLU] compiling kernel to use i686 instead of i386
>
> How much of a gain in speed would I see by doing the above? And how do I
> go about it? I've read some info. but it's still somewhat confusing. For
> example, I couldn't find /linux in /usr/src/. TIA
>
> Eddie
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