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moocha
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| vdboor wrote: | Thanks for this useful info  I think this should be at the main page somewhere, because everyone seams to play _a lot_ with their flags.. Also, -fomit-framepointer and such are already used for -O2 
My CFLAGS seam to get cleaner and shorter each month  |
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But beware - -O2 implies -fomit-frame-pointer, but only on machines where it wouldn't interfere with debugging. x86 (and x86-64 IIRC) machines do not fall into this category, so for your typical system -O2 doesn't imply -fomit-frame-pointer. This one's a keeper
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moocha
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| moocha wrote: | | Do NOT use -ffast-math. You're asking for it. |
I goofed badly on this one. I ran tests and it turns out -ffast-math is very good to use when also using optimization (i.e. for any Gentooer  ).
See my post in this thread for details.
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metalh34d
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I get these results:-march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx
CPU Info as follows: (note that repeat is from hyperthreading not a second proccessor)
| Code: | $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2406.115
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips : 4751.36
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2406.115
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips : 4800.51 |
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fforce-addr -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx" is what I currently have setup now after using this script. Anyone constructive criticism by chance? I used to have -Os setup because the word was programs would load much faster but now I'm starting to hear that my P4's cache is so large Os won't matter so much and O2 is the best bang for the buck when comparing loadtime and performance increase between O2 and O3? |
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dak1001
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:12 pm Post subject: for fincoop, et. al. |
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fincoop - the portage package, as well as others, do have some hard coded GCC flags as intended by the developers... you can check this by looking at the associated "$package-$version.ebuild" file. this is likely why some of the things (portage in particular) you emerge'd did not use your CFLAGS from the /etc/make.conf
until the Pentium M processor is incorporated into the mainline GCC, i would say that this is a case where you would indeed want to use a "-m" flag, i.e., the Pentium M has a core much more similar (but not the same as) the Pentium III architecture and yet also takes advantage of SSE2, so:
CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse2"
could be a suitable setting, and in fact is exactly what i use on my DELL CENTRINO laptop.
earlier, someone made mention of the "-mfpmath=" flag... from my experience GENTOO'ing now, i have toyed with many different GCC flags and though i did witness some benefit in some apps, by and large, i saw a lot of problems going forward. that is, they compiled fine and executed perfectly. but when it came time to "emerge -u" the upgrade would fail. luckily, i always keep a box around with generic optimizations where i would have to compile the updated package and then use to upgrade my system. after too many times of messing with this, i now use a much safer combination, which is what i listed above.
but, your mileage will vary, so if you like to dabble and experiment, i suggest you do and find what works best for you.
Here is the GCC link with explanations on all of the optimizations.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.0/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize%20Options/ |
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TheCurse
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Location: Köln
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Could anyone give me a link to the script? I can't get it to work per copy and paste...
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