On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 01:03 -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
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For the 3rd time IT IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT. The packages that can see
significant performance gains by compiling for Athlon are already available.
The rest are compiled with i686 optimizations and that is good enough.
Look at the kernel packages for instance. You have an Athlon kernel available.
Ehm, not anymore; 2.6 kernels are available in i386 and i686 variants
only. IIRC some runtime CPU detection is being done, similar to what
MPlayer does.
Regards,
Michel