Re: [microsound] ppc-oriented Linux(was: Gentoo for MacOS)

[Niklas Werner <bergtroll@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:14, Arie van Schutterhoef wrote:
> >don't tell me you still run an i386 or i486, but debian's debs still
> > are compiled with those in mind, IIRC, and I have never seen ppc-debs
> > that are altivec-enabled... not that gcc is very good at vectorising,
> > but it's a start, and let's wait for gcc-3.5
>
> -I'm led to believe that Yellow Dog Linux Distribution is
>  very ppc-oriented. But maybe this is very beside the truth...
ppc, yes, but G4/altivec? The new 64-bit version looks to be more 
optimised, but I haven't tried YDL.

Cheers,

Niklas
--
Computer Music PhD-student
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand

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