On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 05:50:38PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > AFAIK, some packages (e.g., dev-cpp/eigen) can use AltiVec vectorization > only when -mabi=altivec is specified in GCC flags. > > Is it safe to use -mabi=altivec in global CFLAGS in make.conf?
I've had that ever since I startd using PowerPC, without any problems I that I would consider attributing to that. > Does anybody know if the system will perform better or worse in average? I did not do any comparisons. Wolfram
