From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How safe is the -march=pentium flag?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:50:53 -0700
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>I've just been playing with the -march flags and found a huge speed
increase
>when I used -march=pentuim.  If this works so good, why is there a push for
a
>pentium optimized gcc? Doesn't -march=pentium make pentium optimized code?
-march=pentium was introduced with gcc 2.8 which is less than a year old.
Pentium GCC has been around for 3 years or more.