> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Jim Woodward wrote:
>
> |
> | Justa general question, I decied to try (out of interest)
> | compiling a kernel with -mpentium instead of -m486 in the
> | ./arch/i386/Makefile
> |
> | it seems to work.. but is there any reason why I wouldnt wanna do this for
> | stability and/or timing reasons?
>
> Only for the fact that it'll make broken kernels now and then. If it'll
> boot, you're probably OK, but I've found that pgcc makes so many broken
> kernels that it's not worth my while...too much hit and miss. If you need
> that extra 0.02% performance boost, though, go nuts.
About the only problem i experianced was the libc5 version of netscape
cmmunicator 4.51 was a little more unstable (may be unrelated) - the older
4.05 netscape is pretty solid..
Im running a libc6/Redhat 5.2 system.
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