Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm... If I have a PII (Actually celeron 300A) or a PIII, which is
> better, 'pentium' or 'pentiumpro'? I would think the latter, but I've
I have to admit that I kind of lost track of Intel's Pentium du
jour offerings after the PPro, but I think PII and PIII use i686
cores or at least something closest to i686, so I'd use -mpentiumpro
there. I don't pretend to have any idea what's appropriate for the
various AMD/Cyrix/IDT/etc processors.
The machines where I use -mpentium and -mpentiumpro, respectively,
are an actual Intel Pentium and a (dual) Intel Pentium Pro. Yes,
there are people out there who don't buy a new machine each quarter.
> Also, I have heard conflicting reports as to whether compiling the
> kernel/world with optimisations is a good thing. Anyone care to (re)open
> that can of worms?
No new worms in there, I suspect.
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