Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:44:59 -0800 (PST) From: "W. Reilly Cooley" <wcooley@nakedape.navi.net> To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help fine-tuning a web server (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903260940540.5457-100000@rheingold> In-Reply-To: <36FBAE8F.17384C3F@eclipse.net.uk>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Does -m486 also help on Pentium or Pentium II systems ? > > Yes it does. If you don't include it then gcc will only use instructions > that also work on 386's - enabling 486 optimizations will allow the use > of some extra opcodes that weren't available for 386's that can speed up > some operations. Does anyone consider the egcs or pgcc Pentium (and greater) optimizations stable enough for a production server? I ran my workstation last summer with fully (ridiculously?) PGCC-optimized C libraries and a few other parts, and had no problems, but that's isn't exactly "production", although for the little work it did it was up 24x7. Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley wcooley@nakedape.navi.net Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.navi.net Internet Meta-Resources: http://nakedape.navi.net/meta-res/ "All the Net you need to be a geek" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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