21 Dec
2006
21 Dec
'06
4:39 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:43 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
2. We build binaries for the lowest common
denominator, so the plugins
you'll find in Fedora, for instance, don't take advantage of SSE
hardware or instruction scheduling for different processors. This can
make a huge difference. What would be nice is if we could distribute an
RPM containing a plurality of plugin builds, and then have the
application load the plugin matching the capabilities the execution
platform.
Perhaps it would be possible to create packages for "i686" in addition
of packages compiled for the "i386" architecture? I think I used to do
that for my Planet CCRMA packages... but I don't think I ever saw a
noticeable difference in performance.
-- Fernando