No major difference to all purposes? In particular, using the system for computation (mpqc2.3.1) without X, aimed at the highest possible floating point.
I am just reinstalling amd64 on dual opteron (hope the old net installer - 19 July - works; the newest does not, as I have reported. Therefore, I am interested in replacing the generic kernel that has been just installed. francesco pietra On Wednesday 13 September 2006 17:27, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:20:08PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > There is no such precompiled image anymore. Precompiled images have > > switched to one flavour only: SMP adequate for AMD and Intel > > processors. > > I guess about the only difference was the cache line size optimization, > which can't make that big a difference. I doubt gcc makes any changes > given they use the same instruction set. > > -- > Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

