From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 11 8:20:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cutter.wantabe.com (cutter.wantabe.com [204.2.6.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B9F37B401 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cutter.wantabe.com (cutter.wantabe.com [204.2.6.8]) by cutter.wantabe.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f97K81g33098 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:08:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:08:01 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey J. Libman" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: code optimized for cpu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i am replacing old servers with newer hardward (and o/s version) and i want to make sure i understand something correctly. it is my understanding that freebsd (i'm using 4.3 stable) can optimize its code for a pentium III cpu, but not for the newer pentium IV's. is this correct? should i specifically shop for pIII chips and boards? thanks in advance. cheers, jeff -- | |\ +------------------------------+ Jeffrey J. Libman, ops. mgr. | \ | Wantabe Internet Services | Wantabe, Inc. |__\ +------------------------------+ jeffrl@wantabe.com <-----|------> | access web cgi ftp news mail | (281) 493-0718 __,.-=\'`^`'~=-../__,.-= +------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message