Re: CPU optimization

[Mircea Luca <mluca@canada.com>]

Rogerio Brito wrote:
> 
>         First of all, I must say that I'm enjoying this discussion a
>         lot and that although I never used this pentium-builder thing,
>         I think that it's pretty slick.
> 
>         I guess that recompiling every package is not worth the
>         trouble, but recompiling multimedia and CPU intensive ones may
>         be a major gain (say, MPEG players and such).
Yes,I was thinking more like X ,KDE ,Gnome and multimedia so I guess the
few
things left won't take that much time.:-).

 
>         BTW, you can use -O6 for your programs. If I remember
>         correctly, it will fallback to whatever is the highest mode of
>         optimization (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong -- I
>         read this a long time ago and didn't find it listed in the
>         current documentation now; the funny thing is that it's not
>         mentioned in the current potato manpage).
> 
>         I also don't know if -O6 does the same thing as -O9.
> 
>         []s, Roger...

I've read something on a archive of a gcc mailing list but apparently it
doesn't
relate to the gcc we use-don't remember the link ,I researched this for
a few hours.I got stuck at the debian/rules when I decided to ask for
help.