Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Mike Jagdis) | Subject | Re: z-Linux and 6x86 | Date | Mon, 09 Dec 1996 09:12:16 GMT |
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>I don't think it makes any difference. My rough benchmark (full kernal >compile 5 times in a row) takes the same amount of time with and without any >of the "Cyrix options" enabled. Maybe it's just that my mobo (Gigabyte >GA586HX w/Award bios) already sets the best performance options.
Any modern BIOS (i.e. anything on a supported 6x86 motherboard) should have set just about all the useful flags - the most notable exceptions being CPUID and SUSP_HLT. The VSPM will only have any effect on code that thrashes around kernel space significantly.
Mike
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