Re: Re: Re: glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

2016-01-13 Thread Peter Saisanas
Thanks for your feedback Len. You explained how the glibc optimisations work in a manner making it easy for me to understand. Much appreciated! Regards, Peter

Re: Re: glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

2016-01-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:31:39PM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Hi Brock, > I have tried lmbench and recompiled glibc 2.21-6 with -O3 and -O2 > optimizations with the cflags below: > extra_cflags = -mcpu=G5 -mtune=G5 -maltivec -mabi=altivec > > I haven't actually seen any marked difference to th

Re: Re: glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

2016-01-11 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jan 11, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Am i doing something wrong, or is there simply no extra performance to be > had just by playing with the cflags and recompiling glibc? Just ask yourself: How many months per year does your cpu execute code from glibc instead of kernel or app code? If you ca

Re: Re: glibc recompile - optimized for G5 cpu target

2016-01-11 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Brock, I have tried lmbench and recompiled glibc 2.21-6 with -O3 and -O2 optimizations with the cflags below: extra_cflags = -mcpu=G5 -mtune=G5 -maltivec -mabi=altivec I haven't actually seen any marked difference to the results coming out of lmbench when using the default Debian glibc and