> That may have been true with <gcc-3.2 but >=gcc-3.2 has much better
> optimizations now and you are not just limited to Pentium optimizations.
>
> DISCLAIMER: The following is provided for informational purposes only and
> not
> intended to start a flame war on weather the use of compiler optimizations
> are worth it or not.
>
> These are the choices - athlon-xp, athlon-mp, athlon-4, athlon-tbird,
> athlon,
> k6, k6-2, k6-3, i386, i486, i586 (Pentium), i686, (PentiumPro), pentium,
> pentium-mmx, pentiumpro, pentium2 (Celeron), pentium3 and pentium4.
This may be true, but the gcc3 series still produces much slower code than
gcc 2.95, optimizations not withstanding. At least with respect to
MPlayer.
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