FC3 and Pentium 4 optimization?

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Subject: FC3 and Pentium 4 optimization?
From: Steve Bergman <steve@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:21:38 -0600
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I am seeking clarification of a point made in the release notes. It states that FC3 is optimized for Pentium 4. However the kernels and glibc available are labeled as i686 and i386. I assume, since Pentium 1 is the minimum hardware requirement, that the instruction set used is Pentium 1. So:

1. What optimization and instruction set are the general packages actually compiled with? 2. What optimization and instruction set are glibc-i686 and kernel-i686 compiled with? (I seem to recall that the kernel is now optimized for size.) 3. How important is this to someone running a different processor? (Say Athlon XP.) IIRC p4 has very specific optimization requirements.

Thanks,
Steve Bergman

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