Here be the compile time flags.

export CFLAGS=”-O3 -march=cpu -pipe -msse2 -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=cpu” CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS=”-O3 -cpu -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti”

As mentioned in my previous entry you can go check the GCC Manual pages to replace the cpu keyword in the mtune and march in the CFLAGS and the -cpu in the CXXFLAGS.

I got approximately a 5% performance boost with these during benchmarking.

Please note though that the developer team got a much bigger increase in performance when they optimized the tables by adding indexes and improving their queries.

In general we also found that a simple select query took about twice as much time when the table was using InnoDB compared to MyISAM.

I am open to any additional feedback and ideas anyone may have.