Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:19:06 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiler flags Message-ID: <201002282219.06374.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100228103155.667ed802@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20100228103155.667ed802@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On Sunday 28 February 2010 15:31:55 Jerry wrote: > I am attempting to redo a Gateway GT5220 PC. The CPU is recognized as: > > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (2009.16-MHz 686-class > CPU) > > Now, would it be advantageous to set the CPU type in the > '/etc/make.conf' and possibly '/etc/src.conf' files. I'd guess that since amd64 is a relatively new platform there shouldn't be much advantage to specifying the CPUTYPE. On i386 there's a huge difference between an i486 and core2 so it can make sense to specify the CPU, but there's much less difference between the various amd64 CPUs. -- Bruce Cran
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