when u compile the 2.4.x kernel, there is an option to select the processor
as an Athlon. the corresponding option used by gcc while compilation
is -march=athlon. however, i couldn't find this in the man pages.
gautham
----- Original Message -----
From: "sreangsu acharyya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] CAD/CAM
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > One of my friends office planning to buy new systems for their high
funda
> > CAD/CAM projects. Now the question is whether Intel processors or AMD
> > processors is best for them? Can anybody throw some lights on this
> > subject? Also AMD Duron is equal to Intel Celeron processor? Please
help me.
>
> AMDs are particularly good for floating point operations, even their 3Dnow
> instruction set is supposed to give faster graphics. The compiler has to
> support this. Not sure if gcc does that. Get an athlon if you can. But
> whatever you do, get loads of RAM ( say 3 x 128 ), you will possibly
> need it, depending on the application you want to run.
>
> -- sreangsu
>
> p.s. duron will beat celeron any day
>
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