Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
> It recommends '-march=pentium3' on a NetBSD/amd64 5.99.01 box (GCC
> 4.1.3), with an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU at 3GHz (Kentsfield core). The
> best fit for GCC 4.1.3 would be '-march=nocona', and less so
> '-march=pentium-m'. Newer GCC versions support keywords for the Core 2,
> but I haven't checked whether your script checks the GCC version and
> keeps a list of supported options.
I just read the source, and I see that you use '-march=pentium3' as
fallback for '-march=core2' for older GCC versions; I'd suggest using
'-march=nocona' instead, because it flags the target as supporting SSE2
and SSE3. Instruction reordering by the compiler would theoretically
benefit most from '-march=pentium-m' on older GCCs, but that lacks SSE3
and x86-64. One snag could be that when using any of the Netburst types
makes the compiler avoid things like ro{r,l}, but I have no clue as to
how GCC really behaves with these flags.
Cheers,
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Thomas E. Spanjaard
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