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Alvin Thompson posted <1127513537.21021.41.camel@×××××××××.localdomain>, |
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excerpted below, on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:12:17 -0400: |
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> anyone know what the best make options are for sempron processors? |
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> should i use athlon or amd64 or something else? |
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To date (thru 4.0.1), gcc treats all the amd64 family the same -- they are |
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all aliased to each other, so to with them, it doesn't matter. |
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I've seen some debate on the the newer processors, however, which have |
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sse3, sempron included, AFAIK, and can't say I know enough about that to |
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say for sure what's best there. For the vast majority of packages, any of |
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the amd64 aliases will be optimal as they'd not likely use sse3 anyway. |
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The exception would be any heavy multimedia or video, particularly |
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encoding and decoding, but also possibly xorg/mesa. On that stuff, sse3 |
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could make a difference and I don't know what would be best. (Note that in |
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practice, support for sse3, as the newest addition in any case, may not be |
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fully optimized yet, particularly on 64-bit. Look for better support there |
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by gcc 4.1 or 4.2, after the potential of gcc 4 has had some time to |
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mature as well.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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