Your flags do not mention SSE instructions. My Duron does not either.
I sometimes get an error with Micha'compile (which includes SSE 
instructions).
I'd like to get my hand on your version to give it a try.


Thanks

Fabien HENON




Ken Cecka wrote:
> Coming in on the heels of everyone else's compiling woes and optimized 
> builds, I just got around to doing my own, and thought I'd post my results.  
> I don't have the official linux build or the windows build installed to do 
> comparisons with, but I did a default build and an optimized build, and 
> have results for each on my system:
> 
> povray.unopt +a0.3 +w320 +h240 +v +D +ibenchmark.pov
> Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   6.0 seconds (6 seconds)
> Time For Photon:   0 hours  3 minutes   2.0 seconds (182 seconds)
> Time For Trace:    1 hours  4 minutes  41.0 seconds (3881 seconds)
>     Total Time:    1 hours  7 minutes  49.0 seconds (4069 seconds)
> 
> povray +a0.3 +w320 +h240 +v +D +ibenchmark.pov
> Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   4.0 seconds (4 seconds)
> Time For Photon:   0 hours  1 minutes  30.0 seconds (90 seconds)
> Time For Trace:    0 hours 34 minutes  54.0 seconds (2094 seconds)
>     Total Time:    0 hours 36 minutes  28.0 seconds (2188 seconds)
> 
> Quite a significant improvement!  OK, so this sucks compared to you Athlon 
> XP 1900 people, but I'm quite happy with it on my Athlon tbird 1.1 GHz.  
> Some notes on the build:
> - Hadn't read the thread on the min/max problem, so I ended up changing all 
> calls to min/max to fmin/fmax, and calls to min3/max3 to 
> fmin(fmin(),)/fmax(fmax(),).
> - Configured as follows based on random suggestions scattered across usenet: 
> CXX='/usr/local/gcc-3.1.1/bin/g++ -O3 -march=athlon-tbird 
> -mcpu=athlon-tbird -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=6 -funroll-loops 
> -ffast-math -malign-double -m3dnow -mmmx' LDFLAGS='-static' ./configure
> 
> Note that I linked this as a static binary so if anyone else wants to give 
> it a try, I can put it up for download - just let me know.
> 
> Ken
> 
> Oh, for reference:
> 
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 4
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
> stepping        : 2
> cpu MHz         : 1109.921
> cache size      : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov 
> pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
> bogomips        : 2215.11
> 
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  261648384 247451648 14196736  1597440 33746944 153714688
> Swap: 388575232 92811264 295763968
> MemTotal:       255516 kB
> MemFree:         13864 kB
> MemShared:        1560 kB
> Buffers:         32956 kB
> Cached:         132836 kB
> SwapCached:      17276 kB
> Active:         110336 kB
> Inact_dirty:     70904 kB
> Inact_clean:      3388 kB
> Inact_target:        4 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:       255516 kB
> LowFree:         13864 kB
> SwapTotal:      379468 kB
> SwapFree:       288832 kB
> NrSwapPages:     72208 pages
>

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