Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> writes:
drago01 (drago01(a)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