Testsuite ad RedHat 7

Geoff Keating geoffk@cygnus.com
Wed Oct 11 10:40:00 GMT 2000


Michael Meding <Michael@Meding.net> writes:

> Where actually are the advantages of a glibc compiled for 686 and one
> for 386 ? What difference can I expect ? Again is there some page
> referring to this ?

The primary differences are that posix thread locks are faster, because 
the 686 series have more atomic instructions.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>


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