Philip Newton wrote:
>
> Greg Cope wrote:
> > I know this is best asked elsewhere but ....
> >
> > I'm looking at perl-5.6.1-TRAIL2 as I am thinking of moving
> > to this for some production platforms (or 5.6.1 when that
> > comes out)
> >
> > Is anyone using any funky optimizations for the CFLAGS beyond
> > -Doptimize=-O3 -march=pentiumpro ?
> >
> > This is for Linux using pcgg 2.95.2.1
>
> Any specific reason why you want to fiddle around with optimizations?
just a boyish go faster urge.
I used things like this in the past with some good results (10% to 20%
improvements) on other apps. Plus I am likely to install this on quite
a few boxes, so a little effort now is worth it.
>
> In any event,
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg23098.html and the
> ensuing thread may be of interest -- Tim Bunce asked about the "best GCC
> compiler options for Intel (perl & apache)" and got some answers.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg23387.html is a
> summary of some of his findings, with a sample gcc and a sample pgcc command
> line at the end.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/thrd7.html#23098 is
> (currently) the thread overview.
Ta - just what I was looking for.
Greg
>
> Cheers,
> Philip
