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Re: i386 and i686



On 11 Aug 00, at 19:10, Dwivedi Ajay kumar wrote:

>  what is the performance differnce between the rpm's compiled for 
> i686 and i386, when used on an i686 machine. Any idea's or pointers? (I
> heard that Mandrake7.1 is optimised for i586.)

man gcc....
always get the sources for software and compile them yourself...tht is much 
better..i686 compiled kernel works much faster than a i386 kernel...the 
i586 compiled software is one of the biggesrt advertised points of 
mandrake..

Rgds


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