Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:59:20 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86 CPU Message-ID: <363BA458.604FFB30@gorean.org> References: <199810311552.KAA14228@laker.net> <19981031141836.B2302@emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > So for all but the most rabid performace freaks that can sense when a > branch is predicted wrong or when a pipeline stalls, including all > possible CPU types will make absolutely no difference. So if we know how to conditionalize this code, why is it still necessary to specify the cpu type? Why not have /usr/sbin/config detect the cpu type and DTRT? (Or whatever convenient/efficient mechanism is appropriate.) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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