On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Dave Cinege wrote:
>I have a dual PPRO 180 with custom 90MHz bus. (Understand this greatly
>increases my performance over a 180 @ 60 x3) The AMD 400 is getting pretty
>cheap
>now and I'm thinking about upgrading. (kernel compiles too slow, etc..)
>
>Anyone wish to comment on whether this is a worth while upgrade?
>
>I really don't want to give up SMP. I am still boycotting PII's, so don't even
>mention them. If by chance a Dual AMD mobo ever appeared, lemme know...
>
I recently read that the AMD K7 ( planned release 2nd quarter '99 ) will
support SMP.
I read that to mean that AMD currently doesn't support multiple processors.
But as to kernel compiles, my AMD K6-2 300 compiles my 2.0.33 kernel in 2:57 (
for make dep ; make clean ; make zlilo ). That's ~1:30 faster than my PII-266.
That could be due to the 1MB cache vs 512KB, or due to the faster integer and
memory management of the AMD chip.
But when the K7 comes out, I'll be first in line here.
Blaine Lupulack
