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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>, <wolfware AT friko7 DOT onet DOT pl>
Subject: RE: optimizations???
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 20:03:22 -0000
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

> My question is : which option I should use for max speedy code (for
> Pentium and better cpu) (i know about -mpentium and -O3) but maybe there
> are another one? Allegro lib makefile I found -O6 what is it?
>
> please reply for my priv address : wolfware AT friko7 DOT onet DOT pl thx!

-O6 is the main optimisation switch for PGCC - the pentium GCC compiler.
People have had varying degrees of success with this. I have got about a 60%
speed _reduction_ by using PGCC, and stick
with -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium and either -O2 or -O3 (depending
on what the code is like).

James Arthur - jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
http://www.arfa.clara.net/james/
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