Good CPUTYPE setting for make.conf for mixed environment?

[Chris]

On 5/27/05, Ryan Rempel <rgrempel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got several machines that I want to maintain identical
> installations on. Some of them have athlon-xp CPUs and some have
> pentium4's.
> 
> What would be a good CPUTYPE setting to use in make.conf? Would an
> athlon-xp run well (or at all) if I used pentium4? Would a pentium4
> run well (or at all) if I used athlon-xp? Or should I use a "lowest
> common denominator" (and if so, what -- something like i686 perhaps?).
> 
> I guess the other question is whether I should worry about this at all
> -- I've got no CPUTYPE setting in make.conf at the moment at all --
> would a more "tuned" setting actually make that much difference?

I would use i686 or pentium3 as a safe setting, assuming you not using
any real old 486 or 586 cpu's.

Chris