XFree86-4.3.0-44 build fails in xc/programs/bitmap

Ron Kuris rk at secondwivescafe.com
Sat Nov 29 03:26:29 UTC 2003


Mike A. Harris wrote:

>Athlon reorders instructions internally anyway, the net result
>generally being that it makes no difference what CPU instruction
>scheduling is chosen, as the chip does it's own thing internally.
>
>I'd be kind of surprised if compiling with all those options 
>yields any real world performance gains anyway.  Placebo effect 
>perhaps...  ;o)
>
>  
>
The gentoo folks would definitely have you believe otherwise.  A friend 
of mine swears that rebuilding everything using the -march=athlon-xp 
results in a much more responsive X subsystem.

I would be very curious to see a Fedora installation completely rebuilt 
xp-only.

Ron





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