Bug 33628 - RFE - compilation flags may be not the best on Alpha
Summary: RFE - compilation flags may be not the best on Alpha
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 1.0
Hardware: alpha
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-28 16:29 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-04-20 12:04:12 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2001-03-28 16:29:44 UTC 
During XFree86 compilation at least on Alpha -ffast-math optimization
flag is used.  During recent timing runs with various application codes
on Alpha and with current releases of compilers from gcc-2.96 family
it was noted that results were consistently _slower_ when -ffast-math
was used.  Differences were never substantial but noticeable.  It is
possible that the same applies to XFree/Mesa.

It should be stressed that I do not have any comparative performance
numbers for this software on Alpha compiled with different optimization
flags.  This is only to note that maybe it would be worthwhile to look
closer at the issue at some moment.
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-03-28 19:02:02 UTC 
I will look into optimizing Alpha flags in the next run.
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2005-04-20 12:04:12 UTC 
I'm currently reviewing all X related bugs in "DEFERRED" state.  This one
is rather old, and we no longer ship Alpha releases.  I suppose it's
kindof moot now though.  ;)
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