Why not produce i586/686 binaries?

[Shahms King]

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KooLeeSH wrote:
| Why don't Fedora Project make an i586 optimized binaries (as Mandrake
does)?
| Some says about 40% performance increase with it. I am really doubt
anybody
| uses FC on machines slower than Pentium. What's you thoughts?

Not really the right list, but the topic has been repeatedly covered in
detail on fedora-devel-list:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-August/msg01155.html

That's the beginning of one of the many threads on this topic. The short
answer: it doesn't help. Read that thread for the long answer.

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