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Date:      07 Mar 2002 10:43:37 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com
Subject:   Re: Performance 686 - 386
Message-ID:  <44eliwidsm.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020307011204.M17911-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
References:  <20020307011204.M17911-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>

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Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> writes:

> In my /etc/defaults/make.conf file, the line for CPUTYPE is commented out.

> Does this matter?  Or is this option/parameter obtained from the current
> kernel or something...?

It doesn't matter.  If it isn't specified, things will be compiled so
as to work on *any* x86 processor.  The performance advantage of
specifying your particular CPU is probably negligible.

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