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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 06:26:13
Message-Id: 200509040821.47958.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags by waltdnes@waltdnes.org
1 On Sunday 04 September 2005 05:27, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
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3 >
4 > That list shows pentium4, mmx, sse, and sse2. Also, if you have *ANY*
5 > version of sse available, you can improve performance by running floating
6 > point math via sse, rather than 387 instructions. I recommend...
7 >
8 > CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2
9 > -mfpmath=sse"
10 >
11 >
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13 emm. I would not do this.
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16 -mfpmath=sse seems to be slower than -fpmath=387
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18 http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=5
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20 has the numbers/made the experience.
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22 It seems, that gcc is not he best optimizer in the world ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags waltdnes@××××××××.org