Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:59:10 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In either case, I wouldn't want to extrapolate Xeon Irwindale results to all Intel X86 chips, let alone AMD. /usr/portage/app-benchmarks has several items in it. Does anybody know which ones have floating-point tests? There

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/5/05, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to prove that Opterons are faster than Xeons, you'll buy a copy of the PathScale compiler for the Opterons and use Intel's compiler for the Xeons. Bob Bob, I don't think this was ever the point. The question was: For this

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:35:10 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, I don't think this was ever the point. The question was: For this specific machine what would be the best flags? You;ll hate this - it depends on what your main apps do. Are they i/o intensive, compute

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-04 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
Hm. Clear, brief, instructive. Smells a lot like a mini-HOWTO. On 9/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are CPU flags and there are USE flags. Some of them have the same names, and that may confuse you. It works like this... 1) Get a listing of your cpu's flags in

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 04 September 2005 05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That list shows pentium4, mmx, sse, and sse2. Also, if you have *ANY* version of sse available, you can improve performance by running floating point math via sse, rather than 387 instructions. I recommend... CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-04 Thread Mark Knecht
I agree with Ellotheth that it seems like there's an opportunity to come up with a good optimization doc but the paper is interesting. The answers might not be the same for P4 vs. AMD vs. sparc vs. Apple. Maybe a suite of files that get compiled, generate the numbers and instruct you what might

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-04 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 08:21:47AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote On Sunday 04 September 2005 05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse emm. I would not do this. -mfpmath=sse seems to be slower than

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-03 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:04:21AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr [...deletia...] I then looked for CPU flags that had an equivalent USE flag and that

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Walter. That description verifies my guess and gives me a reason to continue looking at the issue. I appreciate your help. Cheers, Mark On 9/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:04:21AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote flags : fpu vme de pse

[gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've just recently (the last 4 or 5 days) been experiencing some lock-ups on Firefox. As far as I can tell these seem to come only when visiting certain web pages that have more multimedia content. When Firefox locks up it can be killed from a terminal and restarted. There are no messages

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember. Thanks Volker. I'll give it a try. I'm still interested in the

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same site? Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I can't remember.

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu flags / USE flags / compiler flags

2005-08-31 Thread capsel
please check it this is a flash animations proble. if it is then set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=yes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list