How about -mcpu=i686

[Dimos Dimoulis]

Since you are (re)building packages from source, would you consider using
-mcpu=i686 for x86 (if you don't already)? However small the performance
benefit, I don't see a serious reason against (from a user perspective). I
believe that's what most distributions (other than Debian) are doing anyway.

This may sound naive, but some ex-Gentoo users would feel better about it.

btw, do you rebuild from source packages in "universe" as well?

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[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:13:49PM +0000, Dimos Dimoulis wrote:
> Since you are (re)building packages from source, would you consider using
> -mcpu=i686 for x86 (if you don't already)?

For i386, we already build everything with -march=i486 -mcpu=pentium4.
(The kernel has some emulation shims to take care of real 386
processors.)

> btw, do you rebuild from source packages in "universe" as well?

Yes, everything's rebuilt from scratch.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson [cjwatson@canonical.com]