From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272361AbTGaAWf (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:22:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272368AbTGaAWf (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:22:35 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:32496 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272361AbTGaAWe (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:22:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:22:31 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: lkml Subject: Re: TSCs are a no-no on i386 Message-ID: <20030731002230.GE22991@fs.tum.de> References: <20030730135623.GA1873@lug-owl.de> <20030730181006.GB21734@fs.tum.de> <20030730183033.GA970@matchmail.com> <20030730184529.GE21734@fs.tum.de> <1059595260.10447.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030730203318.GH1873@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030730203318.GH1873@lug-owl.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed