i686 build of Fedora Core

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Jul 28 19:00:32 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:00:03PM +0200, Angelo wrote:
> I think that the only thing it misses is to release an i686 optimized 
> version (just like i386 and amd64). Packages compiled with that 

All the core packages are built i686 optimised. We just build them to be
686 optimised without using the tiny number of 486 and higher instructions
relevant to user space. That gives takes us within fractions of a %age
point of pure 686 optimisation and doesn't break compatibility for the
many non i686 systems running Fedora





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