Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:57:10 -0600 | From | Charles Cazabon <> | Subject | Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Specific Processor Optimizations on x86 Architecture |
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Joseph D. Wagner <theman@josephdwagner.info> wrote: > So what? Some other kernel developer -- like a module/driver developer, a > real-time systems developer, a simulations developer, or just some guy > messing around (read: student) -- might really want or even need those > specific optimizations.
And they can.
> Isn't this whole free-as-in-freedom software thing about giving developers > and end-users options they wouldn't otherwise have under closed source > alternatives? In that spirit, shouldn't developers have the option of > optimizing for those specific processors?
They do have that option. If they itch, they'll scratch it.
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