On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 23:01, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Hi Alan,
> Fun chip - its the one case where a kernel built for the specific processor
> can be up to 30% faster than the default Fedora kernel.
Thought that was for another OS. Hence it's name ;-) .
Centaur measured the most frequently used instructions used by
Windows, and optimised the CPU for those. Or at least that
was the theory. Performance-wise, it didn't really change the
world, as the AMD K6 was around at pretty much the same time
which wiped the floor with it, whilst only being slightly
more expensive.
Dave