Re: tune gcc

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> I have a very naive question:
> Can Debian tune the GNU C Compiler ?
>
> [e.g., put `-cpu=pentium' automaticly on Pentium box]

There's a pentium-builder package that tries to do this, or you can
try to set CFLAGS for the program in question.  With a limited number
of exceptions, though, conventional wisdom is that this buys you
little in performance at the cost of portability of binaries to other
x86-based machines.

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