On 08/14/2010 12:59 PM, Philipp von Klitzing wrote: > Hi! > >>> By a mixed environment I mean some Asterisk servers running on AMD and >>> some running on Intel >> >> If it was possible for that to matter, then the software would be very >> poorly written indeed. As another poster said, the only way that would >> have any effect is if you compiled binaries specifically for one family of >> processors and used them on the other. As far as how the software >> operates, by definition the processor type/family does not matter at all. > > Quite some time ago there was a difference in how the GSM codec was > handled on AMD K6/Athlon systems, but that did not matter greatly, and it > was just a tiny little optimisation setting in the Makefile so gain a > little more speed.
But it did not produce different output nor accept different input; it wouldn't have mattered if an Intel-based system was talking to an AMD-based system, because the data *outside* the system was the same. That was my point. There are many CPU family-specific optimizations that can be used for various parts of Asterisk, but in the end they don't affect how Asterisk operates, only the speed at which it does so. -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA skype: kpfleming | jabber: [email protected] Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
