Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 01:49:44 +0200
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Subject: Re: pgcc... Do I really got it ?
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On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:32:59PM +0200, Ronald de Man wrote:
> 
> This works for gcc (and gives output similar to `gcc -v`).
> I think the question was how to recognize that an arbitrary
> binary has been compiled with pentium optimizations. I know
> of no way to determine this.

Benchmark it against a known non-optimized version ;-> (sorry, I couldn't
resist).

Judging from the original mail, I think the binary was indeed pentium
optimized. Possible sources of errors include:

- not _really_ using pgcc to compile the binary.
- pgcc didn't optimize at all
- wrong testing methodology

However, its very very rare that a pgcc-optimized cpu-intensive program
shows _exactly_ the same execution time as a gcc-optimized.

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