On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:27:38PM +0100, Mark White penned:

> - Intel Xeon (P4-version, 1.4GHz and up) ok?  As well as the
>   well-known less-per-clock-cycle issue, I've heard sundry horror
>   stories about GCC on P4 systems.  Anybody know how NetBSD does?

umm...what are you goin to do with it? Is this for testing/compiling?
I track current on my 5ke laptop(600Mhz), and its pretty fast....

However, I have'nt heared of any horror stories with P4's and
gcc..

> The alternative is probably PIII instead; it's administratively
>   difficult to get hold of appropriate Athlon systems (*sigh*).

[...]

> - Single or dual processor?  How is SMP support in -current doing
>   these days?

SMP support is not quite there yet. I brought this discussion up a few
months ago, and at present we have'nt really moved as fast as we are
in lets say for i386 port.

-Kevin

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