RE: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-10 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > All of those are proven to be stable, work on any UNIX (not just > FreeBSD/pentium) and there's a whole lot of books and howto's: "System > Performance Tuning", for example. Can you lead us to any of this HOWTO's? Tnx. Cheers, /* Alexey N. Doku

RE: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-10 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > Can you lead us to any of this HOWTO's? Tnx. > Well, many good sys admin books exist, I already mentioned "System Performance Tuning", it's one of the Nutshell handbooks. I don't know the author off the top of my head. The mailing list achives will give you plenty of tips and tricks, althou

RE: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-10 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > CFLAGS= -O6 -mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -pipe -s > -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math > > > > COPTFLAGS= -O6 -mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -pipe -s > -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math > > > I'll bet you can beat all of those with regular system management optimizations. Killin

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-10 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > Hi .. > > I agree that optimizations are most of the time "futile" :) .. so is > resistance :) ... ina ny case .. I like to live on the edge .. that is > why I'm running 5.0-current .. and I've compiled the following things > with optimization

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-09 Thread Reinier Bezuidenhout
Hi .. I agree that optimizations are most of the time "futile" :) .. so is resistance :) ... ina ny case .. I like to live on the edge .. that is why I'm running 5.0-current .. and I've compiled the following things with optimizations. o The whole source tree .. including my kernel o XFree86

RE: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 M

2000-04-08 Thread Alexander N. Kabaev
I doubt Mandrake gets any significant performance boost from using gcc with optimisation levels beyond -O. They just use this "super optimised" to stand out from all other Linux crowd rather than for any practical purpose. It has been reported several times that optimisation levels O2 ang higher a