Subject: Re: NetBSD/i386 binaries
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: None <wojtek@wojtek.from.pl>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/09/2001 19:01:52
>
> I seem to recall someone commenting that -mpentiumpro gives a
> slight drop in performance for 386 and 486 chips, and a bigger
> gain everywhere else.
it was me probably. i've don some tests. -mpentiumpro looks almost as same
speed on i386, up to 5% slowdown on i486, but it's 5-10% smaller - takes
less memory, and finally faster on pentium and pentiumpro.
> If so it might still be worth considering for the default.
>
> Actually, does anyone have a reference to a table of relative
> gain/loss and compatability for i386 -march and -mcpu options?
> It would be good to get that information up on the netbsd site
> to give more people the right information to select optimisation.
i could do some tests on many different programs... i have pentium and
pentium III.
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