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On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 05:13 -0700, Duncan wrote: |
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> To date (thru 4.0.1), gcc treats all the amd64 family the same -- they are |
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> all aliased to each other, so to with them, it doesn't matter. |
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so i should use the x86 version of gentoo with amd64 make flags? does |
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that mean i need to somehow use gcc 4.0.1 when bootstrapping? |
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> I've seen some debate on the the newer processors, however, which have |
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> sse3, sempron included, AFAIK, and can't say I know enough about that to |
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> say for sure what's best there. For the vast majority of packages, any of |
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> the amd64 aliases will be optimal as they'd not likely use sse3 anyway. |
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> The exception would be any heavy multimedia or video, particularly |
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> encoding and decoding, but also possibly xorg/mesa. On that stuff, sse3 |
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> could make a difference and I don't know what would be best. (Note that in |
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> practice, support for sse3, as the newest addition in any case, may not be |
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> fully optimized yet, particularly on 64-bit. Look for better support there |
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> by gcc 4.1 or 4.2, after the potential of gcc 4 has had some time to |
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> mature as well.) |
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err, that's just confusing me so i'll just ignore it. :) |
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thanks, |
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alvin |
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Alvin Thompson |
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