Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sun December 4 2005 6:37 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > Robert Crawford wrote: > > On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > > > > > > > -mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers > > performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied b

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:49:16 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: > Have you deleted the content in /var/tmp/portage (not the directory > itself)? It doesn't matter if you delete the directory too, portage will create it when needed. However, it is inadvisable to delete the entire directory if it conta

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sun December 4 2005 6:35 am, Dale wrote: > Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > Personally I stick to -O2 since -O3 usually won't do much in reality. > > -O3 takes longer to compile, and there is very little or no gain at > > all (and sometimes the gain is negative). > > > > If space is the most imp

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Fairles
Chris Fairles wrote: Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: -mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied by -march=athlon-xp), and s

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Fairles
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: -mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied by -march=athlon-xp), and should be removed from y

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Robert Crawford wrote: On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: -mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied by -march=athlon-xp), and should be removed from your cflags line, but SHOULD be

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > Personally I stick to -O2 since -O3 usually won't do much in reality. > -O3 takes longer to compile, and there is very little or no gain at > all (and sometimes the gain is negative). > > If space is the most important issue you might want to compile for > smallest

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Dale wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: O3 makes binaries much, much bigger. Bigger binaries need more cache&load time. So bigger binaries are slower a lot of time. -fomit-frame-pointer is fine, fmpgmath=sse may or may not make your apps slower or faster. msse, mmmx, m3dnow are (mostly) harm

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been up and running a while and am running stable but this is > > Gentoo. ;) I found a script that tells you what your CFLAGS are > > suposed to be and it is different from what I am using. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >O3 makes binaries much, much bigger. Bigger binaries need more cache&load >time. So bigger binaries are slower a lot of time. >-fomit-frame-pointer is fine, fmpgmath=sse may or may not make your apps >slower or faster. msse, mmmx, m3dnow are (mostly) harmless. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 04 December 2005 09:35, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I have been up and running a while and am running stable but this is > Gentoo. ;) I found a script that tells you what your CFLAGS are > suposed to be and it is different from what I am using. This is what I > > am using now, from make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Dale wrote: Hi, I have been up and running a while and am running stable but this is Gentoo. ;) I found a script that tells you what your CFLAGS are suposed to be and it is different from what I am using. This is what I am using now, from make.conf of course: CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Dale
Hi, I have been up and running a while and am running stable but this is Gentoo. ;) I found a script that tells you what your CFLAGS are suposed to be and it is different from what I am using. This is what I am using now, from make.conf of course: >CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-fra