Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:22:31 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: TSCs are a no-no on i386 |
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:33:18PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >... > That sounds a tad inelegant to me. Really, I'd prefer to see libstdc++ > be compiled for i386 ... > > ...and IFF those new opcodes bring _that_ much performance, then we > should think about another Debian distribution for i686-linux. Up to > now, I was really proud of having _one_ distribution that's basically > capable of running on all and any machines I own...
The 486 emlation patch for 386 is the way to still allow 386's to run Debian.
To compile libstdc++ for 486 wasn't a performance question - a libstdc++.so.5 compiled for 386 would have meant that C++ binaries compiled on Debian wouldn't run on other Linux distributions and vice versa [1] (it's a bug in libstdc++ that will AFAIR be fixed in gcc 3.4).
> MfG, JBG
cu Adrian
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01895.html
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