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Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 23:48:54 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture
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Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>
>> $(call cc-option,-march=atom,-march=i686)
> 
> if it's an in-order architecture, wouldn't it be better to tune for i386
> or i486 instead ?
> 

Possibly.  It would be worth measuring.

	-hpa

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