Greg Cope
Mon, 05 Mar 2001 09:35:18 -0800
Philip Newton wrote: > > Greg Cope wrote: > > I know this is best asked elsewhere but .... > > > > I'm looking at perl-5.6.1-TRAIL2 as I am thinking of moving > > to this for some production platforms (or 5.6.1 when that > > comes out) > > > > Is anyone using any funky optimizations for the CFLAGS beyond > > -Doptimize=-O3 -march=pentiumpro ? > > > > This is for Linux using pcgg 2.95.2.1 > > Any specific reason why you want to fiddle around with optimizations? just a boyish go faster urge. I used things like this in the past with some good results (10% to 20% improvements) on other apps. Plus I am likely to install this on quite a few boxes, so a little effort now is worth it. > > In any event, > http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg23098.html and the > ensuing thread may be of interest -- Tim Bunce asked about the "best GCC > compiler options for Intel (perl & apache)" and got some answers. > http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg23387.html is a > summary of some of his findings, with a sample gcc and a sample pgcc command > line at the end. > http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/thrd7.html#23098 is > (currently) the thread overview. Ta - just what I was looking for. Greg > > Cheers, > Philip