On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 05:13 -0700, Duncan wrote: > To date (thru 4.0.1), gcc treats all the amd64 family the same -- they are > all aliased to each other, so to with them, it doesn't matter.
so i should use the x86 version of gentoo with amd64 make flags? does that mean i need to somehow use gcc 4.0.1 when bootstrapping? > I've seen some debate on the the newer processors, however, which have > sse3, sempron included, AFAIK, and can't say I know enough about that to > say for sure what's best there. For the vast majority of packages, any of > the amd64 aliases will be optimal as they'd not likely use sse3 anyway. > The exception would be any heavy multimedia or video, particularly > encoding and decoding, but also possibly xorg/mesa. On that stuff, sse3 > could make a difference and I don't know what would be best. (Note that in > practice, support for sse3, as the newest addition in any case, may not be > fully optimized yet, particularly on 64-bit. Look for better support there > by gcc 4.1 or 4.2, after the potential of gcc 4 has had some time to > mature as well.) err, that's just confusing me so i'll just ignore it. :) thanks, alvin -- Alvin Thompson Navy: 42 Army: 13 -- [email protected] mailing list
