> performance on sun4m systems, and after a few iterations i > ended up with "COPTS+=-O2 -mcpu=supersparc" in /etc/mk.conf I use this: .if ${CFLAGS:N-pipe} CFLAGS += -pipe .endif .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "sparc" .if ${CFLAGS:N-mcpu} CFLAGS += -mcpu=v8 -mtune=supersparc .endif .endif 11~ Martin