On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:38:23AM +0100, Armin Wolfermann wrote: > * steven mestdagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22.12.2005 09:58]: > > how about skipping the mmx stuff? maybe we should just build the > > "generic" target on all archs in the port's Makefile? or is there a good > > reason to do this kind of arch-specific optimization? > > I don't see a common position on arch-specific optimization. Some ports > do it, some don't, some use a flavor. As speed is essential for hashcash > it seems reasonable to keep it in.
do you have a pointer to benchmarks with and without those options? in general, mmx code is allowed. I'm not so sure about -mtune, though, except as a flavor. I don't think it is an issue in this case though, since we already allow mmx, unless of course it exposes a gcc bug. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
