From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RV52B-0002sx-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:30:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CED021C1DE; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:30:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7371121C082 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaah13 with SMTP id h13so2281380eaa.40 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:28:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Gk7X6NV92yQUP/rWdI+UO9JU7ZEIiJggOhymQn8LSvY=; b=LvogranXqhnfxTseCk7zXdvblyfnr+jOdQ1V4bF/ewnQ0jJiYZSFNfQoFWoDMtLrQv vS+ZRDzVlKGNTWGywPxh0qvpNONBX5oli4+rH6OErBZ0Ub0k5QXBvbIgDUTrRkkxre8F FTLsBkXX9w0Ia4NoIs5qLB6+qV/QS1bCrX/v8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.108.114 with SMTP id hj18mr47356068wib.2.1322501321638; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:28:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.122.21 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:28:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:28:41 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l ) From: James Wall To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 5b255c0d-eebc-4dca-9603-cdf4a7e0812a X-Archives-Hash: c07f30bfd991f7d7c197b22640c71fc3 On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> >>> > Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: >>> > emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to the 'ricer special' >>> > CFLAGS >>> >>> The CFLAGS you showed me weren't any more ricer than "-O2 >>> -march=native". (I didn't know that -D_FORTIFY=2 came from gcc) >>> >>> They wouldn't have a leg to stand on... >>> >> >> Mine is: >> >> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange >> -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -funsafe-math-optimizations >> -fexcess-precision=fast" >> >> If you tell me that's not a ricer's CFLAGS, then you've just made me a very >> happy cat :-) >> >> Rgds, >> > > I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term > 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is > really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin > I simply cannot find using Google? > > - Mark > > Ricer is used to refer to someone who wants to have the system tweaked to the hardware it runs on that it is not like the generic binary distros like ubuntu that is compiled for the lowest common denominator like i386 or x86_64. hope this helps clarify the term, James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.