On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
>
> > Second question: I was thinking to buy one more PC, most probably AMD Athlon-
> > or Duron-based desktop/minitower. Are there special optimizations for those
> > processors, and if recompilation for them will speed system?
> >
>
> I am not too sure ... as I don't follow closely on gcc development.
>
Another "problem" with Athlons is that their cachelines are 64bits wide,
whereas they're 32bit wide on Intel series. Right now, no optimisation for
64bit cachelines is made in 2.2.
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