Re: --OMG_OPTIMIZED

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 04/04/08 12:27, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> difference compared to -O1 and i686 --mcpu/--march makes a difference
>> compared to i386. --fomit-frame-pointer also produced faster binaries.
> 
>     Soooo, your machine was idling faster?  'round here CPU time is rarely a
> limiter.  In fact I'm messing around with setting up Xen to split up the
> functions of my main Linux box into 3 VMs.  It's a PIII 667Mhz machine.

Mostly yes.  But certain number-crunching apps will really benefit
from subarch-dependent instructions.

>     Maybe on a game rig that would help.  Probably not.  Games I get running
> in wine (or cedega) are normally within 3-5 frames of native.  That's
> probably the wine overhead more than anything else.
> 


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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