On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 22:29, Malcolm Baldridge wrote: > Your mp3 encoder is probably built "lamely". An Athlon-XP runs optimally > with '-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -s'. Just so you know, -march implies -mcpu, and -O2 enables -fomit-frame-pointer So '-march=athlon-xp -O2 -s' is exactly the same as your flags, but think of all the time saved! :) -DR-