Peter Gordon wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > >> Because I KNOW it works on AMD mobile chips, first hand. I've never >> even looked at Intel mobile processors.... Probably never will... > > > Don't disregard the Pentium M so quickly. The Pentium4 is a _horrible_ > architecture: Intel wanted a CPU that could be clocked _very_ fast (I > think the current top speed is ~3.4 GHz). However, the P4 can't really > do a lot per cycle.
Intel is moving towards incorporating a lot of Pentium M features in their desktop processors. Unfortunately the results for Linux are somewhat mixed...extra cache is good, but gcc treats it as a regular P4, and misses out on a bunch of features. Check out: http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2308 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
