Bug 140033 – RFE: i686 build for Ghostscript

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Bug 140033 - RFE: i686 build for Ghostscript

Summary:	RFE: i686 build for Ghostscript

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	ghostscript (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2004-11-19 08:42 EST by P Linnell
Modified:	2009-10-21 11:48 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2009-10-21 11:48:02 EDT
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Description P Linnell 2004-11-19 08:42:42 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
Gecko/20040906

Description of problem:
Building i686 would benefit and speed up printing, especially with
high resolution prints.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Barry K. Nathan 2004-11-19 12:33:31 EST

Do you have any numbers to back this up? (Just wondering.)

On my Athlon XP, I tried recompiling Firefox as i686 rather than i386
and it didn't make any measurable difference (and this was on a web
page that takes Firefox over 10 minutes to render).

Comment 2 Barry K. Nathan 2004-11-19 12:36:57 EST

Oops, I accidentally hit "commit" before I was done typing my
comment... Anyway, my point is that even for a CPU-intensive program,
recompiling as i686 may not make any noticeable difference. (The
default Red Hat compile options already specify Pentium 4 optimization
for i386 packages.)

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2009-10-21 11:48:02 EDT

Didn't get to do this before i686 became the default. :-(

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