From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 21: 1:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 051EE37B400 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.hitmedia.com (mail.hitmedia.com [205.162.11.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4ABB43E09 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@hitmedia.com) Received: (qmail 31043 invoked by uid 0); 30 Jun 2002 04:01:23 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:01:23 -0700 From: BSD baby To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: are things optimized for i686 if that's in our kernel? Message-ID: <20020629210123.A14439@mail.hitmedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 simple question: If I recompile the kernel to show that I've got dual CPU i686, does the software I install after that (from ports or source) *optimize* itself for that CPU? (People name it as a benefit to Gentoo Linux and I suspected that it was a given in BSD.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message