well here are the flags I'm playing with now.
optflags: athlon -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=athlon-xp -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce -fforce-addr -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse,387 -mmmx -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fprefetch-loop-arrays
out of those the -O3 and --march=athlon-xp will give the biggest boost. and these can not be used for everything. glibc had to be backed off some bug gcc compiled fine. xfree had to be backed off some also but qt compiles fine with these. It is much snappier on my athlon machine I'm slowly working on more things. KDE is next and possibly the kernel but i dont really feel like playing with the kernel rpm much.
Many thanks - I'll try feeding a subset of those into rpmrc. Sometimes I do wonder how many days of optimising rebuild == an adm64. Still, that route will have other problems in tow. Sigh ...
My regular usage is to have 1 or 2 mozilla windows open with maybe 10 or 15 tabs per window. This I have running for possibly weeks. With the mandrake builds I get maybe 3 or 4 days max.
That sounds like you're dispensing with xft and/or using Mozilla's own binaries. Fortunately (like OO.o) installation is very easy :-).
yes I am and I tell you what I miss xft very much. Jaggy mozilla is no fun. I have also been playing with the custom builds of thunderbird and firebird from mozillazine. These are done by others in the community. They run very nice.
Yes, and come out very quickly.
David
