Thilo Manske said:

>On Wed, Mar 13 2002 at 18:25:43 -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
>> pkgsrc/devel/cpuflags can help.  on my 110MHz sparc 5 running 1.5.2,
>> cpuflags adds '-mcpu=supersparc' which almost doubles my dsa
>> performance:

>I did some tests early this year since I noticed some performace loss after
>upgrading my compilers to the new toolchain (that's why I don't have results
>for the old compiler in the tuned cases...).  FWIW here are the not that
>scientific results using dhrystone as benchmark:

I just updated the sources on a SS5/110 to 1.5.3_RC1, and built all of
userland with -mcpu=v8. Things seem somewhat faster, including ssh,
and the size of all the binaries seems to have shrunk by 2k+.

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