> 
> Robert Dobbs writes:
> > 
> > 2.7.2 doesn't include any pentium specific optimizations
> > -m486 is still as good as it gets
> 
> I thought that it did. Perhaps I'm thinking of 2.7.3?
> 
> .pm

Actually, there is a distinction now between m486 and m586.
However it *is* a no-op.  There is also a -malign-doubles
flag that reportedly produces faster code for Pentiums. I am
doing some testing with these settings on a software package
I work on. No results yet.