Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!feed.xsnews.nl!border-2.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder.xennanews.com!nf32.xennanews.com!not-for-mail From: "A.D. Fundum" Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer.porting Subject: Re: Updated GCC builds References: User-Agent: ProNews/2 V1.60.cp125 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@xennanews.com Organization: Xennanews Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:20:11 +0200 Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.88.202 (84.53.88.202) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:20:11 +0200 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:1220 comp.os.os2.programmer.porting:274 > And I don't think there are significant performance differences > between i486 and i586. Think? Could be worth a brief test, since it's not about general differences and this indeed is the most important condition. No gain, no reason to change. Any speed gain which can be noticed can be siginificant. In the case of an individual user it can come down to a CPU load of 99% instead of 101%, with video speed being a classic problem in the world of IBM and Lenovo hardware. I don't know if the difference can be noticed while playing an average video, so your thought could very well be quite right. --