Re: What do CPU-specific packages imply?

[Prakash Advani <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Kernel is what is most important since applications normally talk to
the Kernel. In this case the Kernel would have been precomiled for the
Pentium processor. 

Bottomline is that you can get this with any other distro but mandrake
make it easier for people who don't want to compile/install a new
kernel.

Regards
Prakash

Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
> 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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