Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.m...@gmail.com> writes: > And sorry, you don't care about speed if you still run *that* old > hardware, otherwise you would have upgraded. (I bought my current > desktop used and it is already able to run amd64).
Surely this is exactly opposite: speed matters much more on older hardware that runs slower. The psychological difference between 10 seconds and 20 seconds is much more than the difference between 1 second and 2 seconds. And Debian is used in places and by people who can't just go buy a used amd64 system because they want a faster computer. That being said, a 5% performance gain from using statically linked non-PIC code doesn't strike me as very compelling even for older systems. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tyt7lh8e....@windlord.stanford.edu
