Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Jun 2006 21:55 UTC
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu On Monday of this week, more than 60 Ubuntu developers gathered in a hotel near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport to plan Ubuntu's next release, codenamed Edgy Eft. The goal of the meeting is to set the goals for the upcoming release and to chart the set of steps that will be necessary to implement it.
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RE[3]: i486
by Tom K on Fri 23rd Jun 2006 03:39 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: i486"
Tom K
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2005-07-06

You can optimize compiled code for a particular generation of processor by ordering some instructions in a different way, or preferring one type of instruction over another. Granted, the difference between a 386 DX and a 486 DX aren't as great as the difference between an Athlon 64 and a Pentium 4, but in theory the 486-optimized code should run better on a 486+.

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