[lug] Various Arch/Compiler Binaries living together

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Sun Jun 23 13:44:29 MDT 2002


>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> writes:

Ed> Since then, I've become convinced that fussing with
Ed> platform-specific compilation and optimization tweaks is almost
Ed> always a waste of time.

Yeah, it is.  I think Red Hat compiles the kernel and glibc with
architecture-specific flags, but not anything else.  Unless the code
in question is very heavily used, the benefit is vanishingly small.

Tom



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