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SubjectRe: TSC and Cyrix
I don't know about you but 2.1.127 JUST seems faster in gereral, can't put
my finger on it, but it's just snappy. :)

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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Kurt Garloff wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 02:42:03PM -0600, Trever Adams wrote:
> > Supposedly, in 2.1.127 it should output Mhz if the CPU supports TSC
> > (note that bogomips is pretty accurate to the Mhz with Cyrix chips, but
> > that is not what I am after). I have seen a tremendous speed up in all
> > apps (multitasking not just the foreground process) with 2.1.127, so I
> > assumed that the TSC code was active... now I found out it doesn't seem
> > to be.
>
> Why do you expect the TSC code to speed up your apps? It just makes the
> timing more accurate, if I didn't get anything completely wrong.
>
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> Kurt Garloff <K.Garloff@ping.de> (Dortmund, FRG)
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