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 :-)

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