Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:57:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Lawrence Walton <> | Subject | Re: TSC and Cyrix |
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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. > > -- > Kurt Garloff <K.Garloff@ping.de> (Dortmund, FRG) > PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff > Unix IS user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are! > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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