> I currently own an iBook2, and have often wondered if it would have been a > better plan to go for a laptop with support for `multimedia' activities > (e.g. Altivec in a G4), and also whether I would have a copy of gcc that > would allow me to take advantage of such hardware.
Hi Ed, I actually recompiled CPU intensive application on a powerbook G4 and I found that gcc-3.2.1 have options for the altivec support. I recompiled bochs using -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec and the new bochs boot a complete Debian Woody system in 1'28" instead of more the 5'. I also found that -O3 generate slower executables then -O2 (strange?) Bye, Giuseppe
