Pentium-m compiling and performance

certocivitas · Apprentice Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 194

There have been a number a lengthy threads discussing the proper compile options for Pentium-m processors. For anyone considering these questions Anandtech just published an article benchmarking the Pentium-m against its fellow Intel chips and comparing the effects of different compile flags on Linux.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 16392

Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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certocivitas · Apprentice Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 194

Sorry about the bad placement pjp.

truekaiser · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 738

all i know is the pentium m can kick the p4's ass in gameing.

madmango · Guru Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 507 Location: PA, USA

That's because the pentium-m has a shorter pipeline, much like the AMD chips have a shorter pipeline than the intel ones, and can get more per clock.

A pentium m is basically a pentium 3 with uber cache and a beefed up clock rate/fsb.

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