> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Have you ever seen numbers for running Pentium code on a 486 and 386 vs
> > > native code?
> >
> > I think the Pentium code generator now uses Pentium-specific instructions.
> > Before then, Pentium code on 386 and 486 sometimes ran faster than th
> It just dawned on me that all intel packages must be compiled for 386 to
> make them intel platform-independant. I am wondering how much of a
> performance boost can be had by recompiling them for 486 or pentium.
10% improvement would probably be about the maximum. While 10% is the
point where
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Have you ever seen numbers for running Pentium code on a 486 and 386 vs
> > native code?
>
> I think the Pentium code generator now uses Pentium-specific instructions.
> Before then, Pentium code on 386 and 4
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