On Wednesday 09 April 2003 02:58 am, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Does anyone know if compiling for i686 instead of for i386 would give any > speed increase greater than very marginal? > Any real-life tests anywhere?
As far as I can tell, compiling just KDE for i686 will provide a barely noticeable speed increase. This is because KDE spends a large amount of time calling functions from other libraries, which aren't optimized for a given architecture. I would suggest also re-compiling at minimum glibc, libstdc++, xfree86, and qt for i686 also. In addition, if you don't do any software development yourself, you might consider making sure that no debugging symbols are compiled in.
