CB> performance. Your milage may vary, of course, but 10-20% would not be
 CB> unreasonable. And what's more... Code tuned in the 'Pentium way' will
 CB> also often run faster on most 486s, too!  This is because 1) many 486
 CB> level optimizors aren't that great, 2) many of the modern 486 class
 CB> CPUs are better than the generic 486 (ie: Intel 486) that they are
 Whenever I compile my Linux kernel with GCC I notice a slight performance 
increase when i compile it with the PENTIUM option in the config, rather then 
the 486 (I have a 486).
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