[KLUG Members] Re: REDHAT: My suggestion on organizing binary CDs for x86 chip-specific optimizations

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 11:59, Bruce Smith wrote:
> Heck yes!!!  If that ever happens, you guys running junk hardware are
> going to be out of luck when it comes to BSware!!!   :-)

Why not just mix in the BSWare goodies on the single CD #2 and give your
user's an option for CD #1?

> With Redhat, it's running a "mix" with dynamic binaries (most programs)
> since they have i686 optimized glibc files and CPU specific kernels.  

Optimization goes well beyond "dynamic binaries."

> I wonder how what the gain would be compiling the rest of binaries with
> CPU specific optimization?

Depends on the optimization used.

-- Bryan

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