On Monday 13 May 2002 11:40 pm, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I don't know, but I would very much like to recompile glibc, the Xlib, and > the gnome libraries to be optimized for the different processors I'm > running. > > Recompiling the kernel to optimize for a particular processor is a > significant performance boost but it would help to optimize the libraries > too. > > Recompiling glibc is a bit risky because you can make your machine > unbootable if you make a mistake. > > I think Mandrake is Pentium optimized. > > Mike
I just saw in another thread that the pentium-builder package allows you to build packages optimized for your architecture of choice. It doesn't support other options but it's just a simple perl script so it should be an easy hack to change that. Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
