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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 1999 22:17:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: EGCS optimizations
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904052216100.55808-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199904060457.VAA01999@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     My conclusion:  Don't bother with -mpentiumpro or -march=pentiumpro.
>     Not only do they not result in better performance, -march=pentiumpro
>     will not run on a K6-2.  I dunno about a K6-3.  -m<cpu> does not change
>     the assembly output at all.  -march=<cpu> does change the assembly output,
>     but does not appear to result in any noticeable improvement in performance
>     over not using -m at all.

Totally informally, I replaced libc (compiled with -O2) with one compiled
with -mpentiumpro and -O6, and compiling kdebase seemed to run a bit
slower (GNU make took longer to traverse directories and egcs took a bit
longer to run).

>     Which leads me to believe that using -Os might be beneficial.

Have you tried anything beyond -O2?

- alex



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