Hi Mark, I actually wasn't planning on using 64bit anyway I'm wondering if I should set my CFLAGS to -march=x86-32 or leave it as -march=pentium4? Are they essentially the same? I already took your previous suggestion and enabled vSMP support, though I haven't moved the drive to it's new home as of yet. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
x86-32 will be the lowest common settings for all 32bit cpus. so pentium4 is the setting I believe you should use. I can tell you from my experience, since I use PentiumD cpu, that recompiling with -march=prescott gave me better performance then -marh=x86-32, especially in disk intensive and multimedia applications, such as video encoding and large database access.
