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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:42:10 -0500
From:      Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
To:        Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: lots of updates
Message-ID:  <3AABE322.484DA5B9@cvzoom.net>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103111051002.18158-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il>

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Roman Shterenzon wrote:

> I *think* that for K6-2 having -march=pentium gives better performance
> than -march=k6 ; could someone prove it or prove it wrong?

Gcc is a very unpredictable compiler.  For example, on a Pentium MMX,
I've noticed in my tests that code compiled with -O2 ran slightly faster
than code compiled with -march=pentium -O2.  Of course, they were very
simple tests.

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