[bf1942] x86 optimizations?

[Udo Held]

Hi!

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:44:15AM -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> 
> > No, I meant for general computation.  Does it use SSE vectors or anything
> > of that sort?  What I'm really asking is, does it use either the P4 or the
> > Athlon's specific asm instructions?
> 
> No.
> 
> It does a "cpuid" to get the info on your chip (Athlon, Pentium, 3Dnow,
> etc), but doesn't actually use them anywhere.
> 
> --ryan.

When the server is stable you may consider compiling a 586, a 686, a TB and a
P4 build. I quess the current code is compiled for a 386 which is
probably slower than the cpu optimized builds would do.

TIA
Udo