SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 18:08 UTC (Thu) by pkern (subscriber, #32883)
In reply to: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure by jengelh
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Which is only partly true. Look into (/usr)?/lib/i686 and you'll see libs that will be loaded by the linker in preference to the plain ia32 ones if the hardware supports more than the least common denominator. It even works with /usr/lib/sse2 here on Debian if the package has support for it (see ATLAS or speex).

But of course, normally you don't rely on newer features everywhere, breaking support for older machines. Ubuntu goes i686 now, Fedora's already there, I think; and if you want more optimization I guess Gentoo is the way to go because you don't have to think portable. ;-)

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