On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:42, Florin Andrei wrote: > 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. I think you misunderstood what was said. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
