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Date:      Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:24:30 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Chris Readle <patterner@rocketmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make optimizations
Message-ID:  <20031017212430.GB5764@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031017181908.42948.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20031017181908.42948.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Chris Readle wrote:
> Since I'm going to be cvsuping (is that even a word?) up to RELENG_4 from
> RELENG_4_8 this weekend, I was wanting to see what the general concensus
> on /etc/make.conf optimizations is, particularly CPUTYPE.  I'm running on
> an Athlon processor and I currently have CPUTYPE =3D k7 in my
> /etc/make.conf.
>=20
> Is this generally considered a good thing, bad thing or an indifferent
> thing?

Good thing, as long as it works.  For example, some versions of gcc
have bugs in CPU-specific optimizations that are enabled by setting
CPUTYPE.  CPUTYPE is generally considered safe, though.

> Also, are there other optimizations that I might want to consider?

Not that are recommended.

Kris

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