Re: Migration to Pentium?
Perhaps a bigger issue is the fact that a pentium optimized binary will run
_slower_ on a P6 chip (PPro, PII, PIII, Celeron I, Celeron II). There are
most like a ton of people with one of those processors.
Sean
On Tuesday 23 January 2001 15:09, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Zed Pobre wrote:
> > > http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.html.
> >
> > Even if that site provides a moderately accurate breakdown, you
> > still need to check your math. Not including whatever percentage of
> > the "other machines" section would not benefit from 586 optimizations,
> > I see that more than 18% are 486s or K6s.
>
> Nobody mentioned the K6 in this thread before. But I agree the 486
> machines alone are about 15% of all registered PCs. Does this make
> a big difference?
>
> I guess more important is that -mpentium does not provide a big
> improvement, as it seems. Maybe gcc 3.0 will be better.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Harri
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