Re: TSC and Cyrix
Kurt Garloff (garloff@kg1.ping.de)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:31:00 +0100
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 02:42:03PM -0600, Trever Adams wrote:
> Supposedly, in 2.1.127 it should output Mhz if the CPU supports TSC
> (note that bogomips is pretty accurate to the Mhz with Cyrix chips, but
> that is not what I am after). I have seen a tremendous speed up in all
> apps (multitasking not just the foreground process) with 2.1.127, so I
> assumed that the TSC code was active... now I found out it doesn't seem
> to be.
Why do you expect the TSC code to speed up your apps? It just makes the
timing more accurate, if I didn't get anything completely wrong.
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