Quoting Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> There are two parts to this.  There is the assembly coded parts of Mesa
> (for 3Dnow & SSE) and there are compile switches for GCC.  For example, we may
> wish to see if there are any benefits to building a version with
> '-mcpu=i686' or '-mcpu=k6' or ... in host.def.  If the performance
> difference is neglegable, then we might at least consider changing the
> option to '-mcpu=i486 -march=i686'.  Are 80386 or 80486 CPUs even supported
> by DRI?  Heh..."So I put my PCI Radeon DDR in with my 486SX 20, and RtCW
> wouldn't run because I only had 8MB..." :)
> 
> -- 
> Tell that to the Marines!

Looks like we need some benchmarking :)
Also, gcc accepts many options: for example my CFLAGS is 3 lines long (thanks to
a linux mag -french edition- dealing about gcc optimisation)... like
ffast-math,... Can some of them be useful for "gearing up" the dri?  

Regards,
Bernard Cafarelli

(love this email ending thanks Jose! :)

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