From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 20:32:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E4537BC9E for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:32:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from joshpaet (hutch-763.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.63]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA25107; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:32:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , Subject: RE: [off topic] Pentium IV Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:24:37 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <14686.41738.626456.870733@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ataualpa Albert > Carmo Braga > Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 9:04 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: [off topic] Pentium IV > > > > Any one know where can i see details about Pentium IV? Like benchmarks > (no windows ones), or articles ? > > Another question: When Intel released Pentium MMX the principal changes > from Pentium was some instructions in the processor, bud only > softwares ables to "look for" that instructions worked better. With > Pentium II ==> Pentium III was the same thing. My question is: Are > there projects in unix word that take care news softwares become ables > to works with this "instructions"? > The change from the classic pentium to the mmx that made the most difference in performance was the doubling of L1 cache on the chip, not the addition of the 57 MMX instructions. Josh > Thanks, > > Ata. > > PS: Sorry for so poor english. > > -- > Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br > http://www.iqm.unicamp.br > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message