* Ingo Juergensmann: > I still have an i486sl33 machine at home. It feels faster than my 060 > Amigas, although the 060s should be superior to the 486. So, maybe there's > an arch specific slow down (BE/LE)?
Thats absolutely true, with the introduction of m68k Debian (2.0?) I made some test and basically it can be sumed up as following: GCC produces really mediocre code on m68k m68k-code is bigger while m68k systems have less memory Debian uses rather generous options on its libs etcpp - which eats up even more memory and cpu-cycles. Eg when I dropped locale-support and some other "nice-to-have-but-useless" from glibc/xlib/etcpp (remember, that was libc5/xfree3, todays memory-bogs glibc2.x/xorg7 are even more prone to this) suddenly even m68k felt very fast. All in all I wouldn't be surprised if a lean m68k system GUI would feel three times faster and would only need half of nowadays memory. Because m68k has nearly nothing to do with nowaydays requirements of Debian-Targets. >> [lots of stuff deleted, because I'm in a hurry ] >> I would prefer to see Debian continue to support the m68k architecture. >> But if it simply isn't going to happen anymore, I really think that a >> more focused effort, We shouldn't focus too much on the name "Debian" but more on "Debian-based-Core". In my oppinion is shouldn't be Debian dropping m68k but m68k dropping Debian. Take the core, develope a very-debian-close small distribution and voila, we are done. Christian Brandt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
