Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-20 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:14:05PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > "DM" == Dan Melomedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DM> In your case a good idea would be -march=i686. Note in this > DM> case the resulting binary will be only running on PPro and > DM

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:14:05PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > I would like to recompile kernel 2.2.14 with the extra C flags > "-march=i686 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer" to see what effect it has on > speed and performance. Think those flags get set in the Makefile (well, not -03) by choosing the

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:49:19AM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > "d" == dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > d> I have been using pgcc compiled kernels since 2.2.x without any > d> problems. People should at least be aware that you can optimize > d> for

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread dan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:07:57PM -0600, Phil Brutsche generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > gcc/egcs _is_ safer - pgcc is distributed as a patch to gcc and touches > many compiler internals (for optimizations). It's been known to make > things crash prone (like the kernel). > I have been using p

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread dan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:28:11PM -0800, Ross Boylan generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > This reminds me: what are the best compiler options for AMD chips (I have a > K6-2)? I principally thinking of gcc or egcs. If they have AMD specific > options great, otherwise, what type of Intel is it best

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > This reminds me: what are the best compiler options for AMD chips (I > have a K6-2)? I principally thinking of gcc or egcs. If they have > AMD specific options great, otherwise, what type of Intel is it best > to pretend to be? Stick

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-17 Thread Ross Boylan
This reminds me: what are the best compiler options for AMD chips (I have a K6-2)? I principally thinking of gcc or egcs. If they have AMD specific options great, otherwise, what type of Intel is it best to pretend to be? pgcc is news to me. I take it this is an AMD targetted compiler. I would

Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-16 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 12:22:04PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > On 16-Feb-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have compiled some of recent 'frozen' sources optimized for K6 with PGCC. > > Anyone is welcome to get 'em. FTP to cg619985-a.adubn.nj.home.com or > >

RE: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Feb-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have compiled some of recent 'frozen' sources optimized for K6 with PGCC. > Anyone is welcome to get 'em. FTP to cg619985-a.adubn.nj.home.com or > 24.11.49.110. I would not use them on important or production machines > since some stuff might break with

K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

2000-02-16 Thread dan
I have compiled some of recent 'frozen' sources optimized for K6 with PGCC. Anyone is welcome to get 'em. FTP to cg619985-a.adubn.nj.home.com or 24.11.49.110. I would not use them on important or production machines since some stuff might break with compiler options like -malign-double. Use at you