Baurzhan Ismagulov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:21:13PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote: >> On 6/23/06, Volker Grabsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >For instance, some programs with lots of calculations (e.g. mplayer) >> >are compiled with different processor optimizations (e.g. mplayer-i586). >> >Such packages are created by very redundant entries in debian/rules. >> >Exactly such redundancy is removed by dpkg-cross. >> mplayer is not in debian, so that doesn't make a good example. > > Just for the record, I had a problem with openssh having been compiled > for generic SPARC and running painfully slowly on SPARC v8 systems. > Rebuilding with v8 enabled helped dramatically (virtually instant > connection instead of 10+ seconds depending on the CPU model, measured > with a wrist watch). > > With kind regards, > Baurzhan.
Sparc is the most extrem case that I know of though giving the biggest speedup for crypto code. This example has come up in the past and I thought someone would have added an ssh-sparc8 package with optimized ssh by now. This is one of the cases that are worth it. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]