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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:44:49 +0100
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=F6llmann?= <koellmann@gmx.net>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)
Message-ID:  <20000321004449.A310@home.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000318110022.A60879@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:00:22AM -0800
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David O'Brien wrote/schrieb (Saturday, March 18, 2000):

| On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 03:18:45AM +0100, Thomas Köllmann wrote:
| > | Perhaps this is a bit off topic, but can the pentium optimisations be
| > | used for AMD K6 processors?
| > 
| > I did a `make world' yesterday with 
| >         CFLAGS=         -O2 -pipe -march=pentium
| >         COPTFLAGS=      -O2 -pipe -march=pentium
| ..snip..
| > If it doesn't I'll probably try `-03 -pipe -march=pentium' come next
| 
| What are people hoping to get by doing this?  Are you actually doing a
| scientific performance evaluation between the various optimization
| options???  

This is just playing, the machine I was talking about has it's
backups in order and can afford downtime; I mentioned that already,
and I was only answering somebody's question. 

| Are are people just being macho, and thinking they are
| getting all this non-existent performance increase?  

You _are_ feeling strong about this, aren't you? :-)

| "-O" is the only globally safe optimization on FreeBSD.  -O2, etc..
| causes various problems for various people in various ports, and parts of
| /usr/src/.  If people are using these options just for fun, that is fine,

Yes, just for fun, David, just for fun.

| BUT if you experience *any* problems with compiling using -O2, etc..
| don't bug this list -- go bug the GCC people.

Are they a bunch of machos themselves? :-)

Thanks for your point of view.
Gruß
 - Thomas

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Walking to the car, she takes his hand and puts it, for a moment,
lightly between her moving legs. Roger's heart grows erect, and comes.
That's really how it feels. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
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