From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJszj-0001r6-8o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:26:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8QDHx8w026271; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:17:59 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.118]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8QDHv6h008410 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:17:58 GMT Received: from europa.jupiter.i (pcp09944044pcs.hyatsv01.md.comcast.net[69.140.17.64]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <200509261324470150045kace>; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:24:48 +0000 Received: (qmail 28146 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2005 13:24:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.54.2?) (192.168.54.2) by europa.jupiter.i with SMTP; 26 Sep 2005 13:24:47 -0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: sempron make options From: Alvin Thompson To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1127513537.21021.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:24:49 -0400 Message-Id: <1127741089.7311.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6232db3c-e60d-4060-aeaa-4c833073fca6 X-Archives-Hash: 24c28007b10763106dff441bd633529a On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 05:13 -0700, Duncan wrote: > To date (thru 4.0.1), gcc treats all the amd64 family the same -- they are > all aliased to each other, so to with them, it doesn't matter. so i should use the x86 version of gentoo with amd64 make flags? does that mean i need to somehow use gcc 4.0.1 when bootstrapping? > I've seen some debate on the the newer processors, however, which have > sse3, sempron included, AFAIK, and can't say I know enough about that to > say for sure what's best there. For the vast majority of packages, any of > the amd64 aliases will be optimal as they'd not likely use sse3 anyway. > The exception would be any heavy multimedia or video, particularly > encoding and decoding, but also possibly xorg/mesa. On that stuff, sse3 > could make a difference and I don't know what would be best. (Note that in > practice, support for sse3, as the newest addition in any case, may not be > fully optimized yet, particularly on 64-bit. Look for better support there > by gcc 4.1 or 4.2, after the potential of gcc 4 has had some time to > mature as well.) err, that's just confusing me so i'll just ignore it. :) thanks, alvin -- Alvin Thompson Navy: 42 Army: 13 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list