Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:31:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: AMDK6 optimized kernel and others
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On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 10:39:48PM -0500, Dan Melomedman free video eden" wrote:
> -mcpu=amdk6 works better. Also, maybe you already know this, but gzip,
> compiled with -Os option is significantly slower than gzip compiled
> without size optimization for K6.

Would you expect otherwise???

> Also I noted that gzip compiled for pentium is slower that gzip compiled
> for amdk6 on amd machine, this kinda shows that amdk6 optimization
> actually works quite nicely.

Thats nice to hear.

> I use Stampede distribution, so everything is compiled for pentium,

Thats even nicer ;)

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