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: 1. None. 2. 3. Additional info:
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).
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.)
Didn't get to do this before i686 became the default. :-(