My next Workstation

[Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail]

wow I didn't know that.

Surely I'll compile everything to processor specific.

nice,
f(t)

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 July 2010 20:13, Preston Hagar <prestonh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No, AMD and Intel's use the same instruction set, and are completely
> > compatible.
> >
> > Basically, as a little background info, Intel created the instruction
> > set for the "x86" 32-bit processors and licensed it to AMD to use for
> > their processors.  AMD created the instruction set for 64-bit
> > processors "AMD64" and licensed it to Intel for their 64-bit
> > processors.  That is why when you download Ubuntu ISOs, you will see
> > i686 (Intel 32-bit instruction set) and AMD64 (AMD 64-bit instruction
> > set) "versions"  For 64 bit Intel processors, you would still use the
> > AMD64 download, because they use the AMD64 instructions set.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Preston
> >
>
> That is mostly true, but each processor has it's own features that the
> other doesn't have, and processor-specific optimizations. Ubuntu, so
> far as I know, compiles for generic hardware but if the user were to
> recompile his own software than he might be able to benchmark a
> difference. Nothing a desktop user would feel in the real world,
> though, in my opinion.
>
> The OP might want to take a look at Swiftfox, a Firefox build specific
> to each processor.
>
>
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