Re: What do CPU-specific packages imply?

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:12:20PM +0000, Prakash Advani wrote:
> 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. 

Classic performance issue :) The app will benefit only if it is spending
a lot of time in the kernel. Most of the time, kernel optimizations are 
cool, but they don't necessarily buy the end user anything.

If you want to make mozilla run faster by optimizing the kernel...

	-Arun