On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 20:28:41 David Starner wrote: > Um, that's not what I've heard. Since optimizing for the Pentium > will sometimes pessimize the Pentium (Pro, II, III), and the > speedup from most programs is not that great, and anything that > needs it can be recompiled locally, it wasn't worth the archive > space or the manpower or extra trouble.
I disagree. From experience, I know that up to %50 speedup can be gained in number crunching stuff. I'd suspect %20 could be pretty normal for most CPU hungry apps, and the overall speedup would be significant. __ exa Eray Ozkural, CS Dept, Bilkent Univ.
