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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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To: brett@lariat.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Which CPU setting for 486DLC?
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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?