On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
> If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like
> Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looooooong (at least the
> update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems
> there is little reason to continue using the -m486 flag for compiling
> since 486s seem far too underpowered for running (and installing)
> RedHat 6.2.
I'm running 6.2 without any problems on a 486. Text mode only, running my
mail and a webserver with ~2500 hits/day.
> The only reason for keeping -m486 would be if the compiler would
> generate buggy code with -mpentium.
As long as we're using egcs 1.1.2, -mpentium isn't much of a gain. Even
with -march=pentium, it's usually not noticable.
gcc 2.95.x does a better job; gcc 2.96 will be really good with
optimizations. At that point, changing the compiler flags will make more
sense.
LLaP
bero
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