Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Specific Processor Optimizations on x86 Architecture

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Oct 22 2003 - 19:18:58 EST


On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:55:15PM +0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:

> If you select Pentium III, the -march flag is set to pentium3.
> If you select Pentium 4, the -march flag is set to pentium4.

Already done for 2.6

> If you select Athlon 4, the -march flag is set to athlon-4.
> If you select Athlon XP, the -march flag is set to athlon-xp.

Last time I looked these made absolutely no difference to performance
due to the only differences being on FP code.

Dave

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