Comment 94 for bug 587186

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In , Richard (richard-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Comment 15: Well argued.

Another way to look at this is that 32 bit x86 is already a legacy
architecture. No one who cares about performance should be using
it -- all those power users long switched to x86-64. If you accept
this argument then what we in Fedora should be doing is not making
much effort to optimize 32 bit legacy systems at all. Rather, we should
work on broadening support to as many old systems as possible by
compiling for the lowest common denominator (i486 or i586 systems
were probably the oldest ones that would have had enough memory to
run mini Fedora spins).