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Date:      Thu, 26 May 2005 20:38:46 -0500
From:      Ryan Rempel <rgrempel@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Good CPUTYPE setting for make.conf for mixed environment?
Message-ID:  <fb5ec423050526183810fe6603@mail.gmail.com>

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I've got several machines that I want to maintain identical
installations on. Some of them have athlon-xp CPUs and some have
pentium4's.

What would be a good CPUTYPE setting to use in make.conf? Would an
athlon-xp run well (or at all) if I used pentium4? Would a pentium4
run well (or at all) if I used athlon-xp? Or should I use a "lowest
common denominator" (and if so, what -- something like i686 perhaps?).

I guess the other question is whether I should worry about this at all
-- I've got no CPUTYPE setting in make.conf at the moment at all --
would a more "tuned" setting actually make that much difference?



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