On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:09:51PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote: > In FC4, the optimization string include mtune=pentium4. Does anyone > know why this changed to mtune=generic? Is there a performance hit on > P4s? Has this been documented anywhere? IIRC, developers claimed > numerous performance benefits with the p4 tune. 'generic' will always be tuned for the most popular CPUs at the time the compiler was shipped Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
