GCC 4.2.0

[voxiac]

Among new features of GCC 4.2.0 I was particularly intrigued by this:

New Targets and Target Specific Improvements
IA-32/x86-64

* -mtune=generic can now be used to generate code running well on common x86 chips. This includes AMD Athlon, AMD Opteron, Intel Pentium-M, Intel Pentium 4 and Intel Core 2.
* -mtune=native and -march=native will produce code optimized for the host architecture as detected using the cpuid instruction.

So, if Sabayon set '-march=native' in CFlAGS after the installation it may speed up newly installed packages or even the whole system if the user chooses to do an 'emerge -e world' after installation.
It would ultimately meet the request of this thread:
http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3036

Is there any problems with that that I may have overlooked?

[lxnay]

it sounds very interesting!

[rand.a]

GCC 4.2.0 is now ~unstable instead of hardmasked in portage, just in time to not make it in 3.4 :\

[Darksurf]

Thats OK. Maybe we will be lucky and have a 3.4b or something with GCC 4.2 in it. Although I think that may be a little to much work just for a 3.4b to add to our collection. At least we know what to expect in the next release. Sabayon=greater things

[wolfden]

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/wiki/index. ... pgrade_GCC

[totedati]

i wonder -mtune=generic can be better than -mtune=i686 ? if is true can be a option for livedvd build also ... and -mtune=native can be used for all local rebuilds and fresh installs, i mean in make.conf, CFLAGS=" -mtune=native" from the first hdd install ....

[wolfden]

just a note 4.2.1 was released like 4 days ago. No idea how long it will take to get to portage