i686 build of Fedora Core

[Rex Dieter]

Angelo wrote:
> 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.

True, AFAICT, the current mozilla packages in Fedora Core do not include 
cpu optmizations.

-- Rex