>> >What do you get with -mpentium -march=pentium -O6? Should be better...
>>   Very slightly better, but still a bit slower that -m486 -O6.
>This is odd... Which CPU are you using exactly?

  CeleronA/450MHz

>You'll very probably get better results with -mpentium -march=pentium in a
>more real-life piece of code.


  Agree. That's why such subject.

>> So "-mpentium -march=pentium -O6" were the options to compile Mandrake
RPMS?
>No. There are some known bugs in -O6 handling in pgcc 1.1.1, and we
>haven't had the time to check whether or not they're still in 1.1.3, so we
>had to stick with something slightly more conservative.


  Would be interesting to hear about current status and "safe" options for
maximum optimized compile.

  Mindaugas

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