> Can I ask this dumb question. If , as Intel claims, the PPro performs
> better on 386 code then 486-Pentium code, why does the kernel compile
> with m486 rather than m386?
I've never seen such a claim.
Intel has claimed that 32-bit unsegmented code runs faster though.
One reason that 486-optimized code might be less efficient is that
just about everything is aligned on a 16 byte boundary, so the code's
bloated.
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