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On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:33:04 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: |
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> I don't use gentoo sources but I remember reading about gentoo patches |
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> for processor specific optimizations and being tempted to try them. Is |
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> it possible that is what you're refering to? |
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> The vanilla sources only shows 5 choices for me on amd64: |
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> (X) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 |
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> ( ) Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon |
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> ( ) Core 2/newer Xeon |
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> ( ) Intel Atom |
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> ( ) Generic-x86-64 |
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> And it shows a different set of options when I run it on an x86 machine. |
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That's what I get here, but help lists all the ones I get in |
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gentoo-sources, apart from MNATIVE, which indicates to me that those |
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options should be available, once I work out how to switch them on. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Processor: (n.) a device for converting sense to nonsense at the speed |
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of electricity, or (rarely) the reverse. |
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