Jakub's Recommendations for ia32 Support

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:05:32PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> It extends to other architectures as well, fwiw.  On PowerPC, you can
> have optimized libraries for ppc970,power4,power5,power6, and cell I
> believe.  For Fedora, optimized libraries are built for power6/power6x.

On powerpc the answer is also simple.  Having too many sets of libraries is
a maintainance nightmare and build time killer (ppc/ppc64 glibc already
builds twice to three times as long as i?86/x86_64, having 3 extra sets of
libs would mean waiting for glibc to build forever).  And the gains aren't
very noticeable.

	Jakub