On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:22, Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > MySQL will soon provide precompiled packages for PowerPC as well. > I think they will provide tgz for MySQL 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 > > I just spoke to the MySQl package maintainer and > we wondered which compiler flags will be the best to use. > > > Can someone please give us an overview of the PPC compiler options ? > > - Do you think that altivec will give a measurable speed boost ? > - Can gcc create code which will use altivec for g4/g5 > but will run 'normal' code on non altivec PPC ? > - Or would you recommand to create to binaries optimized > one normal and one optimised for altivec ?
It might help if someone did a comparision between a package compiled with altivec support and one without it. If the difference is justifiable then it may make sense to seperate the packages, otherwise it probably isn't worth the trouble. -Chris
