Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:42:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: brett@lariat.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which CPU setting for 486DLC? Message-ID: <199607241542.JAA09398@lariat.lariat.org>
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> When the machine boots, it wil be identified as having an > ``xxx-class'' CPU, where ``xxx'' is the value you need to specify in > your CPU declaration. Sounds reasonable. I imagine, though, that the optimizations will be different than for some other chips! (The DLC is known to execute complex instructions faster than the newer RISC-like Intel chips, which like simple load, store, and register-to-register operations.) Will the compiler handle this automatically?
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