AMD-optimized

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:36:16PM +0200, Romain Francoise wrote:

> Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at canonical.com> writes:
> 
> > Currently there are only two packages that are optimized for "better"
> > processors than i386: the kernel (which you can easily install as the
> > package 'linux-k7') and libc (package 'libc6-i686', but this should be
> > installed by default).
> 
> And don't forget openssl, which provides i586 and i686 versions of
> libcrypto and libssl since cryptographic algorithms tend to benefit a
> lot from CPU-specific optimizations.

I've added some information to the FAQ about this; feedback welcome.

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 - mdz