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Compile: Favor Pentium Pro

When should I use this option?

The Pentium Pro is as dead... But does this optimize code for it's "successor", Pentium III?

Exactley what proccessors do benifit from this checkbox?

I did not get a straight answear but awarded the points to closest match....
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The Pentium Pro had a few additional instructions on the processor, which normal pentiums have not. The latest pentium processors do not have it either. So, indeed you should only use it if you need the additional speed for pentium pro machines. If not, do not check the option.

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CJ
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Well, I knew that allready... That's why I asked if the processors that came after Pentium Pro bennefits from this option, especially P3.
No, they do not.
How is that when the anccestor to P3, P2 was build on the P Pro platform?

The Pentium was the 5:th generation and P Pro was the 6:th.
Todays processor are still 6:th generation.

You could even upgarade a P Pro to a P2 processor with a special adapter...
AFAIK the P2 was built on top of the P1, not on the PPro. You indeed could upgrade to a P2 processor, it was called an OverDrive. Just an add-in for the pentium itself. But not a true pentium 2.

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CJ
No, the overdrive was for Pentium, not for Pentinum Pro.

For Pentium Pro you would use a plain P2 processor with a socket modiffication.
I got a Pentium Pro 200MHz machine several years ago because I thought it was the new direction of Pentiums.  Meanwhile, the Pentium line added MMX technology.  This went over so well that IT became the direction that the Pentium went, and as far as I know, they abandoned the Pro technology in favor of the MMX technology which is now part of the P2 and PIII lines.  The Pro line is extinct.
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My question is not about on which platform P2 and so on was built, I KNOW it was built on PPRO, Ask anyone who remembers the good old times..

My question is if P2 / P3 / P4 benefits from the "Favor Pentium Pro" compilation option. Has anyone more than a guess???

If you don't belive that P2 is a successor for PPRO here are some facts:

* PPRO had a overdrive to P2, Pentium did not.
* PPRO had cache on chip like P2.
* Both PPRO and P2 worked on the 440FX chipset. (I'm not talking about 430FX for Pentium)

I'd appriciate answear based on facts.
Typhoon,
It's a bit late in the game to try to get an answer out of this.  We need to finalize it since it is one year old.  Please accept a comment as an answer (DO NOT GIVE A C GRADE) or request that this question be deleted.  Then you can ask a new question and may get some more responses.  Thanks!
-- Dan
Better than any guess, facts.
The fact is that all of the magazines I read (at least three) indicated that the Pro line was abandoned in favor of the Pentiums with MMX embedded.  If the magazines were inaccurate, then my information is inaccurate.