Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would surely be nice to see performance numbers from actual > applications. After all, the applications are normally doing > some things besides low level atomic operations.
Indeed, it would be interesting to find out how often applications invoke these operations. Notice, however, that primitive operations like std::string manipulation use these functions, so they *are* used quite often. > Nevertheless, I think it would be best to also start a full > Debian/i686 port which will be 100% compatible with Debian on i386 > except that it only runs on PentiumPro compatible machines, > i.e. Pentium 2/3/4/M, Xeon, Celeron, Athlon, Duron and Opteron > but not Pentium, K5, K6 and most VIA/cyrix chips. I think it would be best to start a port that stops supporting i386, period, both for performance and compatibility reasons. Regards, Martin
