On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 16:40, Petr Soucek wrote: > On 20 Oct 2002, at 15:56, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > i586 rpms make all machines except the original Pentium I and Pentium > > MMX slower. The first step that improves performance is i686 but that > > would rule out K6 and Via C3 cpu's.... > > I'm not sure now - for K6-2 is better i586 or i386 rpm?
K6-2's run better with i386 compiler options. That's why we'll probably switch to that for the i586 kernel. (Note: i586 kernel not just means compiler flags, it also uses the fact that certain 80386 cpu bugs aren't present and can use some 80486+ instructions)
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