Christopher S Horler writes:
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 06:24, Norman Vine wrote:
> > I upgraded my MingW compiler to gcc3.3
> > and tried the following CFLAGS to use the sse multimedia 
> > registers instead of the normal 387 fpu instructions
> > 
> > -O2 -march=pentium3 -msse -mfpmath=sse
> > 
> 
> I haven't upgraded to gcc 3.3, I had planned on waiting until gcc 3.4 or
> even later.  Can you give us an indication of what kind of performance
> benefit this can give?

I overwrote my old executable so its kind of hard to say.

Also FPS in FGFS is very position and view dpendent
making an exact figure hard to come up with and on my
machine I can become quite 'fill bound' occasionally
ie. Panel and several cloud layers displayed and nothing
short of a faster GFX board will help this

But I can say that I noticed the differance immediately
nothing extreme like a 2X improvement but my guess 
is about a 20% improvement :-)

This is on a PIII 733 with a GeForce 2

You want to compile PLIB Simgear and FGFS with these flags

Also note that if you aren't debugging  '-fomit-frame-pointer' 
on the X86 platform gives the code an extra register to use :-)

HTH

Norman


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