On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:45:16AM -0500, David Cary Hart wrote: > On one hand, the FC3 packages are compiled with the "mtune=pentium4" > flag yet the kernel is distributed based on PentiumPro. Then it has the > additional overhead of the generic x86 code. You'll be hard pressed to find a real-world example where this makes a noticable difference. Even microbenchmarks will likely be in the less than 5% range. > There are all those PCI > fixes that the vast majority of people don't need. The standard RZ1000 > "fix", for example, hasn't been used since Neptune and causes a > deterioration in disk performance IFF you have a Neptune chipset. Same as the other quirks. They only run when the relevant device is found. Dave
