From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 8: 7:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B7C37B402 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:07:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16j0QG-00025g-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 16:07:16 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id C3CC813040 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:07:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 8391022599; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:07:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:07:15 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance 686 - 386 Message-ID: <20020307160715.GA4680@raggedclown.net> References: <20020307011204.M17911-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <44eliwidsm.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44eliwidsm.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:43:37AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Peter Leftwich writes: > > > In my /etc/defaults/make.conf file, the line for CPUTYPE is commented out. > > > Does this matter? Or is this option/parameter obtained from the current > > kernel or something...? > > It doesn't matter. If it isn't specified, things will be compiled so > as to work on *any* x86 processor. The performance advantage of > specifying your particular CPU is probably negligible. > I think such a statement needs substantiating, or at least qualifying. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message