Limbo: a new Red Hat Linux beta -- processor-specific versions of other packages

Posted Jul 5, 2002 4:19 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Limbo: a new Red Hat Linux beta -- processor-specific versions of other packages by tjc
Parent article: Limbo: a new Red Hat Linux beta

Other than a couple of packages (gzip, ssl, and ???) the speed improvements were no more than 10% if you compiled everything for a specific architecture (i686 for the P4). Also realize that i586 optimizations can cause slowdowns on i686 systems.. and dont even get into what happens on an AMD/cyrix/etc cpu. Having i386 with some exceptions (kernel, glibc, and a couple of apps) is the safest for most customers...