Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-12 Thread Pawel Maczewski
Also, I found that mounting /tmp as tmpfs quite drastically boosted my machine... But this works only if you have much RAM memory aviable? On my machine, I have only 128 MB and 700 MB on the swap partition, so I think my tmpfs would be placed on the disk, not RAM... am I rioght or wrong? tia

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-11 Thread Stephen Clowater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For a PIII with 256K of chace, your best bet is CFLAGS=-march=pentiumIII -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -mmmx -msse - -m3dnow -fgcse-lm -funroll-all-loops -maccumulate-outgoing-args - -minline-all-stringops Admittedly, -march= will probably set

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-11 Thread Richard Leonard
On Sunday 11 January 2004 8:33 pm, Stephen Clowater wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For a PIII with 256K of chace, your best bet is CFLAGS=-march=pentiumIII -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -mmmx -msse - -m3dnow -fgcse-lm -funroll-all-loops -maccumulate-outgoing-args

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-10 Thread Richard Leonard
On Friday 09 January 2004 12:11 pm, Spider wrote: CFLAGS=-march=athlon -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe (-march implies -mcpu, so stating cpu would be redundant) i wouldn't suggest -O3 for this system as you are low on CPU cache, which means that you'd be far better off with the smaller,

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-10 Thread Bill Roberts
On 13:24 Sat 10 Jan , Sean Johnson wrote: What size cache would be relevant to this distinction, and is there any other factor that makes -O2 preferable to -O3? I have a 600MHz PIII (Coppermine) with 256kB cache, and am using CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer.

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-10 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 20:07, Bill Roberts wrote: On 13:24 Sat 10 Jan , Sean Johnson wrote: What size cache would be relevant to this distinction, and is there any other factor that makes -O2 preferable to -O3? I have a 600MHz PIII (Coppermine) with 256kB cache, and am using

[gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-09 Thread Pawel Maczewski
Hi, I finally compiled my first gentoo system. right now, it's quite small, cause I was thinking about not to compiling anything that I won't need. But I'd like to get better performance, optimize some compiler flags... So, that's my question: what kind odf mcpu and march should I choose as I

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-09 Thread Spider
begin quote On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:09:17 +0100 (CET) Pawel Maczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I finally compiled my first gentoo system. right now, it's quite small, cause I was thinking about not to compiling anything that I won't need. But I'd like to get better performance,

Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

2004-01-09 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 09 January 2004 7:11 am, Spider wrote: begin quote On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:09:17 +0100 (CET) Pawel Maczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I finally compiled my first gentoo system. right now, it's quite small, cause I was thinking about not to compiling anything that I