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Greetings!
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Vadim Plessky wrote:
VP>Will I get performance boost if download sources and compile on Pentium III
VP>(my primary computer is Pentium III/600) ? Or performace boost will be
VP>insignificant, and better not to do it?
You'll get some speedup if rebuild cpu-critical packages for i686
architecture.
VP>Second question: I was thinking to buy one more PC, most probably AMD
VP>Athlon-
VP>or Duron-based desktop/minitower. Are there special optimizations for those
VP>processors, and if recompilation for them will speed system?
gcc-2.96 (which is unstable AWAIK) has "-march=athlon" option while currently
used gcc-2.95.2 cannot optimize for athlon, only for k6. I have no information
how fast i686-optimized code works on athlon.
Regards,
Dmitry
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