On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:58:18AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working in what is a Mandrake shop, but relatively open minded about > Debian. I'm already making inroads into getting Debian used as the distro > of choice for infrastructure boxes. Thanks to FAI. Nice work Thomas. > > Mandrake alledgedly compile all their binaries with Pentium optimisation. > I was recently asked if Debian's binaries were optimised. I didn't think > they were. I was wondering, in reality, if there were any significant > performance gain from doing it? > > Let's say I wanted to keep a local package repository build from the > source packages, how trivial is it when (re) building the packages to > enable Pentium optimisation?
Take a look at the pentium-builder package. Once installed, it just requires setting an environment variable to force pentium optimisation during compilation. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
