On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 18:28, Eric Ball wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:42 pm, drewbian wrote to gentoo-user:
> 
> > > After looking through the huge array of optimizations people have posted
> > > on the discussion forum's I'm rather confused as to what the hey to put
> > > in there. Particularly as most posters seem to use Pent 4's or Athlon
> > > XP's,
> > >
> > > Also would -march=athlon be the most suitable for a Duron 1.3?
> 
> I understand that Morgan-core Durons (the >1GHz ones I believe) are just 
> Athlon-XP's with less cache, so you can use -march=athlon-xp which will be 
> (slightly) faster.
> 
> My CFLAGS for an Athlon XP 1800+ are:
> 
> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mcpu=athlon-xp -m3dnow -mmmx -msse 
> -mfpmath=sse,387 -finline-functions -fmerge-all-constants -fthread-jumps 
> -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math -fforce-addr 
> -falign-functions=64 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4 -frerun-cse-after-loop 
> -frerun-loop-opt -fprefetch-loop-arrays -maccumulate-outgoing-args"
> 
> Which contains some duplications but _seems_ to work perfectly. Note this will 
> probably make people cry "Are you crazy and/or stupid!?" and developers will 
> likely refuse to do troubleshooting on any problems you may have.
> 
> -Eric
Thanks for replying,

Man, that's a lot of cflags ;) I"m going to try err toward the
conservative but this will give me lots to muck around with.

The -march=athlon-xp bit is particularly interesting. I only had
-mach=athlon in make.conf before.

drewbian

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