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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:51:39 -0400
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nocona CPU
Message-ID:  <20060914175139.GA16873@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609140145180.17396@slacknet.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609140145180.17396@slacknet.com>

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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
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