On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 03:45:30AM +0000, Paul J. Keenan wrote:
> I accidently deleted the previous mails in the thread,
> so I'm hoping the original poster get's this !
>
> To permanently turn on pentium optimizations, change
> your /usr/lib/gcc-lib/2.92.2/specs (or similar) from
>
> *cc1:
> %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p}
>
> *cc1:
> %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p} -march=i586
>
> As others have pointed out, the gains may be limited
> with respect to the amount of work you do recompiling,
> but I'm of the opinion that even of you get a 1% gain
> then it (shouldn't) do any harm, so why not ?
>
Well don't do it if you're a package maintainer. On many CPUs the
"optimisations" actually slow things down, and nobody wants that.
Sorry, though, I don't know the answer to your question.
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