Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> writes:
>   
>> "Show me the numbers".
>>
>> I did some experiments on one of my systems (a 3-year-old 2.4GHz P4)
>>     
>
> It probably won't make any difference except for the people on quite
> old machines. When I last checked on things like this six or seven
> years ago the difference was notable though not dramatic. None the
> less, it is a simple enough change -- I'll implement it.
>
> Perry
>   

Further, the difference is a *compile* time change.  Most people aren't
nuts enough to build NetBSD on their 20MHz 68020s natively, I think. 
Cross-compiling is *so* much better, and I think nearly everyone these
days does their development on machines that are at least a 200MHz class
Pentium or better.  Anyone who doesn't, must like wasting time waiting
for the compiler. :-)

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