On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 18:37:27 -0600 "Canek Pel�ez Vald�s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > # PENTIUM4 will generate invalid SSE2 instructions; use 'pentium3' instead. > > # > > > > Also, the performance gain when using pentium4 instead of pentium3 is > > minimal. > > I need to disagree. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 (Pentium 4 1.8 > Ghz), and originally I installed Gentoo with pentium3 (because of the > warning in make.conf). Months later, reading the forums and the mailing > list, several people commented that the pentium4 flag was not dangerous > at all. So I recompiled everything again using pentium4. Correct, if you're using gcc 3.3.x (which is still in ~arch) - with gcc 3.2.x (which is in arch), things will break badly. > My system has no problems since then and, more importantly, it feels > much more faster and based in timings to compile big packages, it's > actually faster (so is not only in my head; genlop -t shows significant > improvement when compiling). Didn't expect this, but if you're ~arch definitly worth a try :-) -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt
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