On 10:55 Fri 18 Feb , Will Clifton wrote: You can use march=pentium4 and -msse3 to use the SSE3 instruction set (although there isn't much code around using it). I've been using this quite successfully for a while. Also you should enable SMP support in the kernel config.
Cheers, Ben > I have a question about my make.conf for my new P4 Prescott 3.2. Before I get > too busy installing I want to set my CFLAGS to get the most out of my chip. Is > the following too much? I'm not a programmer, but this is what I got out of > reading some forum posts and man gcc. I also read the setting the -march flag > to "prescott" causes > problems. Has any one else experienced this? > > Any opinions are appreciated. > > cflags=-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe > chost=i686-pc-linux-gnu > makejopts="-j3" ( because of the 2 virtuals cpus?? ) > > Also, will I be wanting to enable SMP support in my kernel? I read that > somewhere too. > > Thank you for the help. > -- > Will Clifton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > [email protected] mailing list --
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