Pierre Schmitz wrote:

Am Montag, 17. März 2008 10:11:15 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:

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My opinion on this, why to desupport something which might be still used, also we all know that x86_64 is the future and therefore i don't think the benefit is worth the trouble.

In addition to this MMX would not really boost anything. SSE would be much superior. And further more: You would only notice such improvements on heavy multimedia encoding stuff and such things you would not do on an 10 years old computer.

You could say the same thing between using march=i386 vs. march=i686. I'm for this idea, and I would even suggest bumping from i686 to pentium3. But not any further than that, because I'm still using an ArchLinux install on my Pentium 3 500 Mhz testbox... Glenn