RFC: Optimizing for 386 (Part 2)

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Didier Casse wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:34:08 -0600, Derek Moore <derek.p.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>He's not the only one that believes compiler optimizations have an
>>effect at runtime (if he was, Gentoo wouldn't exist).
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>Another breed called Arch Linux seems to believe that i686-optimized
>packagers would be better than the i386-optimized ones.
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>http://www.archlinux.org/about.php
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>I came across this a while ago, that's why I ask a simlar question in
>the fedora-list mailing list.
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>A friend told me that he felt the power with arch linux. He used
>Fedora before and complained that Fedora was getting bloated and
>claimed arch linux was delivering more performance. Oh well I can't
>really compare or couldn't verify it but I'm really happy with Fedora.
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I tryed arch linux but it wasn't faster than fedora (the only difference 
was that it takes much longer to boot with default config) ... they also 
have kernel and glibc rpms for pentium4 and athlon.