Re: 686 distro. [Was: What about Mandrake?]

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> 
> Any chance that you might also "back it down a notch" and compile it
> with the 586 flags?  For those of us with Cyrix and Pentiums, of course...
> My machines are MII-300, MII-233, PR233MX, 2xP133, PPro200, 8xP100, so I
> would obviously be able to benefit big from something like that, whereas
> for a 686 distro I wouldn't.

Just as a side-note.

You would benifit from i686 opt on the PPro200.

PPro, PII, PIII all have the same basic core., the P6 core.

PII  == PPro w/MMX
PIII == PII w/SSE.

Apart from other differences.

The PPro has integrated full speed L2 cache for instance where the PII
has external half-speed L2 cache.

The PIII comes in both flavors nowadays, etc etc etc...

But the basic core is the same.

// Stefan


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