XXI century and still using 386 packages...

[Remy Maucherat]

On 4/14/05, Molot <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> Actually, me & my friend(s) want to recompile all Ubuntu main repository
> to i686 + (propably) optimizations for athlon/duron. Then, we could
> measure the difference. Why we are doing this? There are 3 reasons:
> 1) We can.
> 2) Gentoo is good, but too many things can go wrong. And proper install
> needs fast internet connection and time that many people don't have. So
> making well optimised packages (and CD's maybe) for our favourite OS
> seems to be good idea.
> 3) We can.
> 
> Thread with little technical question about the issue is 'here'
> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=131906#post131906).

Maybe we can get some kind of ideas of the gains that can be expected
by comparing the x86-64 (which should be fully optimized) with the 386
binary on an Athlon 64, and then assuming a little of the difference
comes from the extra registers.

How significant is that performance difference ?

Rémy