On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:49:41PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > I assume the compiler is not stupid enough to try and use both when that > > is impossible. Don't forget this is all just passing a CPU name to gcc > > which actually decides what instructions to use. > > That's not what I mean... What I mean is that if one application is using > SSE, and the other wants to use 3dnow, this will incur a performance > penalty (although I'm not sure how much or how noticable it is), so some > people may not want to have SSE enabled.
Don't set CPUTYPE then, if you know better than the compiler how to optimize your system. Kris
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