From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 22:16:57 GMT
wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie) writes:
>bfornshe@s850.mwc.edu (Ben J Fornshell) writes:
>>The pentium chip is 100% compatible, the only differences lie in its
>>improvements (if you call expansion improvement) of the command set.
>Hmmm. I was under the impression that the pentium was super-scalar
>and pipelined as well. This is a substantial architecture change over
>the 386/486.
This changes the hardware architecture of the chip, but the instruction
architecture hasn't changed. Programs can't see the difference.
To get all of the speed imporvements, you have to recompile, but that's
just going to be a flag on GCC. Probably -m586. ;)
Cheers,
David
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