On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 02:30:40 +0200 (CEST), Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Jerry A! wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:00:44PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > > : Hi,
> > > :
> > > : how about the following patch (untested) regarding the newer athlon xp
> > > : processor type
Peter Wemm wrote:
> Jerry A! wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:00:44PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > : Hi,
> > :
> > : how about the following patch (untested) regarding the newer athlon xp
> > : processor type ? if needed, I could submit a PR.
> >
> > Shouldn't Athlons and AthlonXPs be a
> > Shouldn't Athlons and AthlonXPs be able to use i686 (pentiumpro)
> > instruction set optimizations?
>
>No. They are different cpu cores that have different optimization
>strategies.
Yes, all Athlons can use i686 code while the k6's can't. Further, without
doing any scientific testing, I w