On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:09:19PM +0100, Timothy Murphy mentioned:
> What program are you talking about?
> The kernel?
> Surely that's got nothing to do with the distribution.
Nah, kernels, glibc and openssl have been shipped as optimized binaries
going back *years*. Certainly RH 5.x had i686 versions of everything that
mattered.
Maybe....X ? That's about the only package I could see that'd take
advantage of optimisation that someone would notice.
John
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