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On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:13 +0200, J. F. Lemaire wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > But when we have a Falcon and switch between a CT60 and native, this
> > becomes really nice to be able to switch between the 030 and 060 builds
> > automatically.
> 
> Out of curiosity: is there any "real" (as in "measured") difference
> between a Falcon running a 030 kernel or a 060 or even a 000 one? If
> not, should we bother?

Right, now you are looking at performance. Applications perform
differently depending on usage. I don't think you can bucket performance
like that.

Providing a choice and documenting it seems like a good solution to me
instead of restricting people to one or the other.

Alan.