What do CPU-specific packages imply?

[Biju Chacko <biju_chacko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As you know, some distros like Mandrake advertise Pentium specific packages 
as a feature. What does this imply? I assume at the very least this means 
that the binaries include more efficient instructions that are available 
only in the Pentium instruction set. Is there any more to it? Is there any 
*real* performance improvement when using i586 packages?

Can anybody shed any light on this? Arun?

Biju
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