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Re: Updated GCC builds

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Hi/2.

A.D. Fundum wrote:
>> VLC.
>> -march=i486
> 
> FWIW and off-topic: if you can notice any significant speed gain, I'ld
> suggest to change that to a 80586, the Pentium-generation. Based on 
> the CPU speed and bus speed of e.g. a 80486 DX2 50 MHz, I doubt that 
> anybody will grab a 80486 to watch a video with VLC and expect it to 
> work. Both an i486 and an i586 don't match the minimum requirements of
> your OS (W4: 80386, eCS: > Pentium I), so that's not a reason to stick
> to an i486.
> 
> With a Warp 4 80486 notebook and the simple 320x200 
> x:\OS2\APPS\KLONDIKE.FLC video, played by the default OS player, the 
> CPU load is about 50%. So it's possible to play videos with i486 
> hardwarde, but this'll be about the limit of that generation of CPUs. 
> By default I'ld always suggest to print "same as OS" on the box, i.e. 
> i386 (keeping Warp 4 users in mind) or no optimization, but there are 
> exceptions like modern web browsing beasts (i486: not enough 
> installable RAM for real use, for one) or up-to-date video players.
> 

It's a minimum requirement to compile VLC.

And I don't think there are significant performance differences between
i486 and i586.

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KO Myung-Hun

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