On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:06:50PM +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
I've used openSUSE (i586) with the same configuration and
packages installed
and eg. Firefox 3 was started in < 1 sec. I have no benchmarks but
everything runs faster and is more responsible.
Our optimalization does nothing compared to > i386 compilation.
I can only guess that there are many differences besides the arch
between suse and fedora. Did you try a more meaningfull test, for
instance rebuilding the firefox rpm as i586 and seeing what the gain is?
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Pat