29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
12:39 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 07:29 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Application code compiled for a P4 (using full P4 optimizations) usually won't run on a P3, I suspect the same for kernels.
Except CentOS isn't built fully-optimized for P4s. It reorders instructions to fit more efficiently through the P4's pipelines, but it still uses i386 instructions.
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