On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:05:41PM -0400, Will Woods wrote:
Building for i686 gives *no* real performance benefit[1], but breaks
support for i586 machines - Via C7-based netbooks, AMD Geode (e.g. the
OLPC XO-1), and so on.
-w
[1] except on in-order CPUs like Atom and the original Pentium
Does this mean that for Atom-based machines we are taking the risk of
introducing some slowdown?
--
Jan Pazdziora
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat