On Wednesday 09 April 2003 19:27, Sean Fraley 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
A bit off topic but changing from 2.95 to gcc 3.2 has reduced cpu usage in many applications on my system by as much as 30%. Particular noticable is the change in mplayer which is now much less cpu hungry. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1 on Debian GNU/Linux
