On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:08, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > Also since not all back ends are of equal quality at times "optimizing" > for the processor brings a slowdown: the K6 will run faster on code who > is compiled with -mcpu=i686 than with -march=k6 and that is valid both > for gcc 2.96 and 3.2. > > Benchmark first and draw conclusions later: for instance you could > assume that code optimized for Pentium will run faster than code for > 386 when CPU is a 686. Wrong. In a nutshell, you're saying that gcc sucks. Don't get me wrong, i don't say you're not right. But one would expect a compiler to do "the right thing". Seems like gcc doesn't. -- Florin Andrei If you wear a tinfoil hat nowadays, people will just think you're advertising for some Mel Gibson movie. _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
