Fedora and optimisation Current State of 64-bit Computing

Fedora and optimisation Current State of 64-bit Computing

Posted Feb 18, 2005 3:01 UTC (Fri) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)
In reply to: Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing by elanthis
Parent article: Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing

Although FC3 contains "i386" packages which only use 80386 instructions the choice and order of those instructions is optimised for the Pentium 4.

The problem with the tactic of providing i686 versions of packages is that the demonimation no longer discriminates between the processor classes of interest: Pentium II, Pentium III/Pentium M and Pentium 4.

The tactic also fails for machines with a targetted use. It might be acceptable not to get the utmost out of Apache or Samba when they are used on a desktop, but it is not so acceptable when Apache is used as a web server or Samba is used as a file server.

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