compilation architecture

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:06:50PM +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> I've used openSUSE (i586) with the same configuration and packages installed
> and eg. Firefox 3 was started in < 1 sec. I have no benchmarks but
> everything runs faster and is more responsible.
> 
> Our optimalization does nothing compared to > i386 compilation.

I can only guess that there are many differences besides the arch
between suse and fedora. Did you try a more meaningfull test, for
instance rebuilding the firefox rpm as i586 and seeing what the gain is?

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Pat