On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 07:10:29PM +0530, Dwivedi Ajay kumar wrote: > hi all, > 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.) Depends on your application - which is your best benchmark. -Arun