[ale] Optimizing the Kernel

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:

> 
> I was reading a thread about optimizing compiling.  I re-compileed mutt
> with -O4 and there was a nice improvement.
> 
> I'd like to do that with my kernel and use "-O4 -mpentiumpro" (my machine
> is a dual-p2 300)...
> 
> I've seen a few places I can put this in, CFLASG and HOSTCFLAGS in a
> few different places.  What's the right place though?

Nowhere.  You will break the kernel, if you do anything more than the -02
that it already does, in all sorts of mysterious and not-immediately-obvious
ways.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu