On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 11:00:18AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:47:59AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > You can apt-get K7 optimized kernels & other distors have K7 > > > optimized kernels also & even Opteron Optimized kernels now.<br> > > > > I wasn't trying to deceive, just saying if you're lazy and don't > > change out the kernel in pretty much any distro, the Intel procs will > > run slightly faster on an i386 targetted kernel. > > I'm very curious about the basis of this claim. AMD CPUs implement > the x86 instruction set just as well as Intel CPUs. Do you have any > references for this? It seems very unlikely to me. Well yeah, I thought the point of AMD's numbering of the Athlon XP was to indicate "This Athlon performs as well as an Intel with clock speed x although the Athlon's clock is slower than x"... > Even if it is the case, is it really *that* hard to 'apt-get install > kernel-image-2.4-k7'? ... and AMD's performance ratings are based on Windoze, where this option does not exist. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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