On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:47:55PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At 21 Jun 2003 00:27:18 +0200, > Mathieu Roy wrote: > > RedHat provide glibc for i386, i586 and i686. Why doesn't Debian > > provide several packages for i*86 when the package can be optimized a > > lot depending on the CPU type? > > We're planning. i686 optimized binary does not work on my machine, so > it's currently dropped. We need to check whether it's ok to upgrade > smoothly or not.
There used to be libc6-686 and so on, but they caused a lot of problems with upgrades. Then they were re-enabled, then disabled again in the same release. I wasn't able to measure a significant performance increase with the optimized library anyway, so I haven't missed it. -- - mdz
