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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:46:14 PDT
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mmx or ppro 
Message-ID:  <9710141846.AA00297@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:55:12 PDT." <34432560.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> 

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In message <34432560.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za>,   you write:
>Hi there ...
>
>Which Intel technology, MMX or PRO, gives better performance
>for fbsd.  Anyone have experience on both?
>

My understanding is ppro gives highest performance per clock.

PPro and pentium II have backside caches on a private bus, 
pentium does not (I think).

This seems to make a substantial difference.

marty



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