[asterisk-users] Asterisk on AMD

Philipp von Klitzing klitzing at pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Sat Aug 14 12:59:38 CDT 2010


Hi!

> > By a mixed environment I mean some Asterisk servers running on AMD and
> > some running on Intel 
> 
> If it was possible for that to matter, then the software would be very
> poorly written indeed. As another poster said, the only way that would
> have any effect is if you compiled binaries specifically for one family of
> processors and used them on the other. As far as how the software
> operates, by definition the processor type/family does not matter at all.

Quite some time ago there was a difference in how the GSM codec was 
handled on AMD K6/Athlon systems, but that did not matter greatly, and it 
was just a tiny little optimisation setting in the Makefile so gain a 
little more speed.

Philipp




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