On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 14:52, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>
> used the glibc srpm, a 12M file
>
> standard RHL build:
> 26.01user 0.06system 0:26.23elapsed 99%CPU
> (107major+1632minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
> athlon build:
> 25.73user 0.10system 0:26.10elapsed 98%CPU
> (108major+1632minor)pagefaults 0sw
Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
Seriously, run a couple benchmarks on both plus use the SRPM to rebuild
an athlon optimized glibc (rpm -ba --target athlon glibc.spec),
benchmark, compare and publish the results.
tried after "rpm -bi --target=athlon glibc.spec" and set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/tmp/g
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 02:42, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:08, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> >
> > Also since not all back ends are of equal quality at times "optimizing"
> > for the processor brings a slowdown: the K6 will run faster on code who
> > is compiled with -mcpu=i68
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:42, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:08, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> >
> > Also since not all back ends are of equal quality at times "optimizing"
> > for the processor brings a slowdown: the K6 will run faster on code who
> > is compiled with -mcp
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:08, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
>
> Also since not all back ends are of equal quality at times "optimizing"
> for the processor brings a slowdown: the K6 will run faster on code who
> is compiled with -mcpu=i686 than with -march=k6 and that is valid both
> for gcc 2.96
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 22:01, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>
>
> Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 18:25, Florin Andrei wrote:
> >
> >>What is the reason why there are kernel RPMs optimised for Athlon, but
> >>no glibc RPMs for Athlon?
> >
> >
> > Perhaps there isn't much to be gai
Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 18:25, Florin Andrei wrote:
>
>>What is the reason why there are kernel RPMs optimised for Athlon, but
>>no glibc RPMs for Athlon?
>
>
> Perhaps there isn't much to be gained. AMD knows far too well that
> because it is the "minor company
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 18:25, Florin Andrei wrote:
> What is the reason why there are kernel RPMs optimised for Athlon, but
> no glibc RPMs for Athlon?
Perhaps there isn't much to be gained. AMD knows far too well that
because it is the "minor company" most of the time its processors will
be runn
