Sender: nuetzel AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <381776BC.74D6E9F2@myokay.net> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:03:40 +0100 From: Dieter =?iso-8859-1?Q?N=FCtzel?= Organization: DN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.3.24 i686) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-US, en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herbert DOT Wengatz AT consol DOT de CC: pgcc AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Q: I plan to buy me an Athlon (aka AMD K7). What can I expect from the Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com Hello Herbert,

I own an Athlon 500 with MSI MS-6167 since mid August.
So you are not the first, here...:-)

The Athlon is more PPro/PII/PIII compatible than K6/K6-2/K6-III, I think.

Normally I only use

'-O -funroll-loops'

because I found with 'dgemm.c' (little bench from QuantX, the cool Alpha company) that it is the fastest for the moment.

For Mesa-3.1 beta3/CVS I use

setenv CFLAGS '-O6 -march=pentiumpro -pipe -malign-double -mstack-align-double -funroll-loops -DSHM'

for the libraries and then '-O -funroll-loops', again for the demo programs.
Marc?

Both work with 2.2.xx and 2.3.xx for me.

SunWave1>cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.3.24 (root AT SunWave1) (gcc version pgcc-2.95.1 19990816 (release)) #1 Wed Oct 27 04:03:48 MET 1999 

SunWave1>cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 1
model name      : AMD-K7(tm) Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 499.040637
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr 6 mce cx8 sep mtrr pge 14 cmov fcmov 22 mmx 30 3dnow
bogomips        : 498.07
I do 3D medical visualization as my thesis.

Regards,
        Dieter 

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Dieter Nützel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
Cognitive Systems Group
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30
D-22527 Hamburg, Germany

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