i686 build of Fedora Core

Angelo ang3l0 at katamail.com
Wed Jul 28 19:45:51 UTC 2004


Elliot Lee wrote:

>Image/video/sound processing have to be hand-coded if they want to use
>MMX, so changing compiler flags won't help there. The other examples you
>gave, well, there are no additional instructions that will benefit them.
>
>If you don't believe us, run some benchmarks :-)
>
I've benchmarked extensively only firefox, the new mozilla browser, and
i could say that the page render significantly faster on i686 build
against a i386 one... i've no other benchmarks now, but i'll try to do
some tests.

Regards,
Angelo





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