From: "M. R. Brown" <mrbrown@0xd6.org>
To: Benoit Poulot-Cazajous <poulot@ifrance.com>
Cc: nbecker@fred.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: On K7, -march=k6 is good (Was Re: Why no -march=athlon?)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:56:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011219175616.GD19236@0xd6.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x88r8ptki37.fsf@rpppc1.hns.com> <20011217174020.GA24772@0xd6.org> <lnitb3drx6.fsf_-_@walhalla.agaha>
In-Reply-To: <lnitb3drx6.fsf_-_@walhalla.agaha>
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* Benoit Poulot-Cazajous <poulot@ifrance.com> on Wed, Dec 19, 2001:
>
> But gcc-2.95,x _supports_ "-march=k6", and we should use that instead of
> "-march-i686".
>
No, k6 != athlon. IIRC, the i686 optimization is closer to the Athlon than
the k6 opt.
>
> before the patch :
> 1017.92user 261.80system 24:39.89elapsed 86%CPU
> 706.33user 160.79system 16:23.61elapsed 88%CPU
> 1787.38user 418.76system 43:35.97elapsed 84%CPU
>
> after the patch :
> 1018.42user 253.85system 24:44.68elapsed 85%CPU
> 704.89user 151.76system 16:16.14elapsed 87%CPU
> 1786.96user 410.76system 43:05.32elapsed 85%CPU
>
> The improvement in system time is nice.
>
Er, there's not much difference...
Curious, what happens when you compile using gcc 3.0.1 against
-march=athlon?
M. R.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-19 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-17 14:59 Why no -march=athlon? nbecker
2001-12-17 15:54 ` Dominik Mierzejewski
2001-12-17 17:40 ` M. R. Brown
2001-12-19 17:46 ` On K7, -march=k6 is good (Was Re: Why no -march=athlon?) Benoit Poulot-Cazajous
2001-12-19 17:56 ` M. R. Brown [this message]
2001-12-19 18:39 ` nbecker
2001-12-19 18:47 ` M. R. Brown
2001-12-19 18:52 ` J Sloan
2001-12-19 19:01 ` Josh McKinney
2001-12-19 19:21 ` M. R. Brown
2001-12-19 19:28 ` J Sloan
2001-12-19 19:38 ` Allan Sandfeld
2001-12-19 21:40 ` Benoit Poulot-Cazajous
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2001-12-19 20:33 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-20 0:06 ` Alessandro Suardi
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