RJ45 wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:47:28AM -0600: > > > Hello I wanted to buildworld and kernel on FReeBSD 6.1 since I have Xeon > cpu, I Wanted to rebuild it with CPUTYPE=nocona > > when I put the oprion in /etc/make.conf upon compilation instead of > -march=nocona is used -march=prescott
Expected behavior. Both are Netburst architecture CPUs and Prescott is the only -march for Netburst. > Can anyway really have any kind of improvement using CPUTYPE=nocona for > userland and kernel ? Not over Prescott. In general it is doubtful. Netburst only likes to run very specific code fast and gcc can't do much about it. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
