Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com writes:
drago01 (drago01@gmail.com) said:
Moving to i686 is fine, non i686 chips are mostly dead (but the perfomance gain from moving to i686 from i586 is questionable at best).
... how so? It's consistently 1-2% in reasonable benchmarks (real-world code, albeit cpu-specific).
I don't understand how this proposal can survive even momentary consideration. We're going to cut off some nontrivial fraction of our userbase to get 1-2% speedup for the rest?
As was already mentioned, the people who need speed are probably on x86_64 already. The x86 builds are for legacy hardware *now*, and should be understood as such.
regards, tom lane