On 1 Jun 1997, Guy Maor wrote: > Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Perhaps. Anybody have any serious arguments? I think the reason we > > configure gcc as i486 is so it automatically optimizes for the 486; it's > > a good middle ground. > > I think the only optimization gcc 2.7.* does for i486 is instruction > alignment. The Pentium has a better fetch unit so doesn't need any > alignment (it never incurs a misfetch penalty) so optimizing for i486 > will at least give some code bloat. > > I don't think it does any optimization at all for pentium.
No not in 2.7.x, but there are noticable differences for P5 and P6 in gcc 2.8. Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .