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

2005-09-05 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 th

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? > Ther

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

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 wor

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

2005-09-03 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 -

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

2005-09-03 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

2005-09-03 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

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 t

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

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'

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

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

[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 in