Re: [Nautilus-list] Compiling question

[Louis Garcia <louisg00 bellsouth net>]

What is the difference between RH which builds for i386 and mandrake
which is for i586? Does mandrake binaries run faster on a pentium class
box?

--Lou

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 08:52, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Louis,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 01:01, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > I am currently running rh7.2 on a i686. Would recompiling nautilus for the
> > i686 arch produce faster binaries? If so what would those optimizations be?
> 
> 	You would get a better result by putting a little effort in to backport
> some of the speedups into the 1.4 platform.
> 
> 	The history pixmap broadcasting is somewhat ripe for this, and should
> only take a few minutes to put some sort of hack in to make it work,
> similarly the gnome vfs init patch I just committed accelerates startup
> time nicely with minimal intrusion (after Darin fixed it), oh and
> possible the bonobo-activation query cache would be nice.
> 
> 	Algorithmic optimization is going to hammer i686 compilation every day
> - it's just a little harder to do ;-)
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> -- 
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>