> But of course, the floppies did not build, because doing
> -march=pentiumpro expands the size of everything 30%.

It had much the same effect on a commercial C compiler.
Given the massive code bloat, it isn't totally clear the
the system will actually run faster - after all the cache
occupancy of the code increases dramatically and could push
the working set out of the cache.

Of course a benchmark is typically small enough to fit in the
cache whatever you do - or so large it blows the cache anyway.

Need a 'real benchmark' :-)

	David

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