On 7/20/05, Simon Strandman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko skrev:
>
> >
> >Why do you care? I bet that differences between i686 code and pentium4 code
> >are well below noise level.
> >--
> >vda
> >
> For x86_64 the flags -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow are always
> used for compilation. Why is'nt the same thing done for x86 instead of
> using -march=i686 -mtune=?.
>
> -march=athlon and -march=k6 includes -m3dnow and -mmmx, are those ok for
> the kernel but -msse isn't?
>
As Kerin pointed out, gcc 4.0 supports auto-vectorization, so in
theory, these options might provide better performance on some
compilers. Apparently SSE is not enabled by default any more for P4
because of a known bug w/ some compilers. People using gcc > 4.0 can
obviously override it.
Really, w/out the presence of auto-vectorization support in the
compiler none of the vector extensions are necessary. The only things
that really matter are -mcpu and -mtune: what instruction set your CPU
supports and the optimum instruction scheduling characteristics for
your CPU, respectively.
Dave
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