On 6/23/06, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said:
> The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then
> FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary
> reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems to be if you need greater then 4GB
> of RAM.
>
> This should give you the speed boost your looking for:
> CPUTYPE?=pentium2
> CFLAGS+= -mtune=nocona
> COPTFLAGS+= -mtune=nocona
>
> Put that in /etc/make.conf and recompile ports/kern/world.
Cool, thanks.
Mike
Yea it looks weird but I've benchmarked it:
-march=pentium2 + -mtune=pentium3
-march=pentium2 + -mtune=pentium4
-march=pentium2 + -mtune=prescott
-march=pentium2 + -mtune=nocona
All are equal to or better then -march={your_real_cpu} alone, which is
weird because -march=cputype implies -mtune=cputype. My gcc settings
also produce safer (less buggy) code at compile time and safely
optimizes code that would otherwise ignore the CPUTYPE option in
make.conf... YMMV.
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