Luca Presotto wrote:
Hi everyone!
I was starting to think to recompile everything for my pc to speed
up everything. I started googling and I found almost nothing about how to
change make.conf on bsd. Almost everything was about Gentoo, somehow not
unsurprisingly.
The first thing I noticed is that for linux all the instructions are about
doing CFLAGS=" value" while it seems from /etc/share/examples/make.conf
that in bsd I don't need ". Is it correct?
Second question: If I set MAKEOPTS= -j 3 will that be used when
portupgrading? (It's really to slow otherwise!)
Third question...The most difficult..Which are the best flags for my
machine? (freebsd 7.0-RELEASE with an intel centrino core2 duo)
I have seen in the ..../examples/etc/make.conf that one of the possible
"CPUTYPE" is core2 which looks to me as the right one but a geekier friend
of mine that lives inside gentoo-linux told me that this option is
unknown is gcc 4.2 and will be working from gcc4.3, so he told me to use
"prescott".
And what do I have to set to make gcc aware of the type of CPU I have?
CPUTYPE= cpu
and then CFLAGS= --O2 -pipe (etc..)
or should I not write the cputype and then do:
CLFAGS= -march=mycpu --O2 etc....
Can someone give me some advice on how to configure this file?
Or can you provide me some documentation?
Thank you!
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You're *really* wasting your time. The whole thing about those compiler
optimizations is a myth. And most ports are already compiled with -O2 by
default IIRC. But why would you spend two days compiling for a 0.1%
speed increase? Your system is doing no cpu cycles at all for most of
the time anyway. And I really wouldn't recommend aggressive
optimizations for stuff like the kernel. Disabling unnecessary services
or installing apps you often use without support for X and Y (like
installing KDE or Gnome base, then the apps you *really* want on top of
it) will give you much better performance than messing with CFLAGS and
such. Also, makeopts and -pipe just make _compiling_ faster, not the
applications themselves!!!.
Please take a look at the following pages, they have a lot more
information about this matter ;)
http://funroll-loops.info/
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74072
--
- Marcin
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