On 12/26/2000 07:48, Ralph Winslow at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
You would gain on the kernel side, not on the package side. The kernel would
operate faster and be more efficient (assuming of course that you're really
running on an i686 machine). But unless a package has also been compiled for
i686 (unlikely) then you won't see a very large increase in speed.
I'd love to see an offshoot of Storm take the storm name to it's fullest and
offer recompiled packages for i586 and i686 architectures. That would be
cool. However, Storm has said they are not going to do that. You could
easily do it yourself though.
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