[mythtv] --arch=athlon-xp problem (was Re: multirec branch - missing MM_SSE...)

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Thu Dec 13 21:13:19 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 22:08 +0100, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> OK, so --arch=athlon-xp is either broken or gone, nevermind. The
> question is whether using "pentiumpro" (as autodetected by the configure
> script) is the right choice for K8 Athlons...

pentium4 would probably give the fastest code when running 32-bit code
on a K8. But this would need to be tested. The athlon-xp gcc target has
always performed worse than pentiumpro on the old 32-bit Athlons, but
the K8 core may behave differently.

-- Daniel



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