Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Zach Loafman writes: >> Yes... I saw a few Makefiles using -O9 and -O10. > You should never blindly use high optimization levels. For one, there > is nothing wired above -O3, so -O9 and -O10 both fall back to -O3, > IIRC. Yes, I think the reason to use -O10 is to use the highest optimization

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread Zach Loafman
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I also don't know if -O6 does the same thing as -O9. > >> > >> []s, Roger... > > > I've read something on a archive of a gcc mailing list but apparently it > > doesn't relate to the gcc we use-don't remember the link ,I > > researched this for

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:21:58AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: Mircea Luca writes: > > >> I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the > >> trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may > >> be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such). > > > Yes,I was think

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Mircea Luca writes: >> I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the >> trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may >> be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such). > Yes,I was thinking more like X ,KDE ,Gnome and multimedia so I guess > the few things left won't t

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread Mircea Luca
Rogerio Brito wrote: > > First of all, I must say that I'm enjoying this discussion a > lot and that although I never used this pentium-builder thing, > I think that it's pretty slick. > > I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the > trouble, b

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jan 06 2001, Mircea Luca wrote: > Hmm..well I read in the gcc manual that -O3 is "optimize even more" > and is the maximum.:-) First of all, I must say that I'm enjoying this discussion a lot and that although I never used this pentium-builder thing, I think that it's pr

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-06 Thread Mircea Luca
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Hmm... The package only changes the -mcpu and -march flags. > > I think it's easy to change the script for someone who knows Perl and the > stuff checked there. (I'm not too familiar with those, although I could > try something and make a .deb) Greatly appreciated >

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:53:33PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > Hmm..OK ,let's see if I understood this corectly : > > > DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=k6 > export DEBIAN_BUILDARCH > > This should do it for the k6 stuff. Yes. > What about the code optimization ( -O3).This doesn't seem to be > addressed and a

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-06 Thread Mircea Luca
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:38:59PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > > Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > > dpkg --print-avail pentium-builder > > Thanks,that was quick > > > > Now since the package doesn't have a man page and I don't read perl > > will that code read my envir

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:38:59PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > dpkg --print-avail pentium-builder > Thanks,that was quick > > Now since the package doesn't have a man page and I don't read perl > will that code read my environment settings or do I have to edit that >

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-06 Thread Mircea Luca
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:24:01PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'd like to recompile some parts of my install(sid) specific for my > > system > > mainly what is set up already in .bash_profile (for both root and user) > >

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:24:01PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to recompile some parts of my install(sid) specific for my > system > mainly what is set up already in .bash_profile (for both root and user) > - > #Begin /root/.bash_profile > a

CPU optimization

2001-01-06 Thread Mircea Luca
Hi I'd like to recompile some parts of my install(sid) specific for my system mainly what is set up already in .bash_profile (for both root and user) - #Begin /root/.bash_profile alias ls='ls -a -color' PS1='\u:\w$' TERM=linux CFLAGS="-O3 -march=k6 -mcpu=k6