Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29998; Wed, 13 Dec 95 18:48:51 EST Received: from pain.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01320; Wed, 13 Dec 95 18:48:51 EST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA12872; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:29:48 -0500 Received: from jekyll.piermont.com by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA12617 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:14:01 -0500 Received: (from perry@localhost) by jekyll.piermont.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA06619; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:13:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:13:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199512132113.QAA06619@jekyll.piermont.com> From: "Perry E. Metzger" To: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG Subject: should we be using -m486? Reply-To: perry@piermont.com X-Reposting-Policy: redistribute only with permission Sender: owner-port-i386@NetBSD.ORG Precedence: list X-Loop: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG Should we be compiling our code these days with -m486? Does anyone know if code compiled this way is faster or slower on a pentium than non-m486 code? This would slow down the 386 folks a little bit, but it might be a win for the bulk of folks... (I really haven't done enough experimentation to have a set opinion on this.) Perry