Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:07:04 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [Drifting off-topic] Re: Cyrix Detection -- NO SMP, please ????? |
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On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 05:03:15PM -0700, david parsons wrote:
> Though this does beg the question of `why bother?' -- I know > that there are some ppro optimizations that speed things up, > but for a casual user will they even be noticable? Since the > 805xx chips are just a little bit faster than the 80386 chips, > does it REALLY cripple performance to have a 386 kernel on your > Xeon (80524?) 800 machine?
386 has to dump the whole TLB, P5+ don't have to. Presumably this does make a real difference, lmbench could probably verify this?
-cw
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