I decided to tose coustion to the wind to day and play around with optomizations on my workstation. I figure the worse that will happen is that I will have to reinstall Gentoo on my workstation or remove the optomizations and recompile yet again…

So… in my /etc/make.conf I am changing my CFLAGS from “-O3 -march=i686 -pipe” to “-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fforce-addr ” and running “emerge –sync && emerge -avDN world” and crossing my fingers.

I am sure some of you C hackers out there will look at this and laugh but as I know next to nothing about compiling software and the ins and outs of a compiler, this is some what of a leap for me. Of course if you know of any other flags I should use, I would love to hear about them and why I should use them.

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