Build option for perf and not portable

doc/build-from-source.md

@@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ There are 3 levels:
 
 ```
 
+````{important}
+
+One can activate a performance oriented and not portable build using:
+
+```sh
+pip install . -v -C setup-args=-Dnative=true
+```
+
+````
+
 ````{note}
 
 Recent versions of `pip` allow one to specify different options like so:
@@ -107,7 +117,6 @@ pip install . -v \
   -C setup-args=-Duse-xsimd=false
 ```
 
-
 ````
 
 Of course, one can also change values of
@@ -140,8 +149,8 @@ pip install . -v -C setup-args=-Doptimization=2
 ```{admonition} Advanced compilation configuration
 
 The environment variables `CC`, `CXX`, `CFLAGS`, `CXXFLAGS` and `LDFLAGS`
-are honored. So for example, one could compile with
 `CXXFLAGS="-march=native -Ofast"`.
+are honored. So for example, one could compile with
 
 Note that Fluidsim builds are not sensible to the [`~/.pythranrc` file](pythranrc)!
 

meson.build

@@ -83,12 +83,15 @@ print(incdir)'''
     )
   endif
 
-
   pythran_complex_hook = get_option('pythran-complex-hook')
   if pythran_complex_hook == 'os-dependent'
     pythran_complex_hook = host_machine.system() == 'linux'
   endif
 
+  if get_option('native')
+    cpp_args_pythran += ['-march=native', '-Ofast']
+  endif
+
 endif
 
 subdir('fluidsim')

meson.options

@@ -4,13 +4,24 @@ option(
     value: 'pythran,python,numba',
     description:
       'pythran,python,numba (default), cython, numpy, numba; ' +
-      'or comma separated value representing multi-backends'
+      'or comma separated value representing multi-backends',
+)
+option(
+    'native',
+    type: 'boolean',
+    value: true,
+    description: 'Performance oriented and not portable build',
+)
+option(
+    'use-xsimd',
+    type: 'boolean',
+    value: true,
+    description: 'Turns on xsimd vectorization'
 )
-option('use-xsimd', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'Use xsimd')
 option(
     'pythran-complex-hook',
-    type : 'combo',
-    choices : ['os-dependent', 'true', 'false'],
-    value : 'os-dependent',
-    description: 'Pythran complex_hook option'
+    type: 'combo',
+    choices: ['os-dependent', 'true', 'false'],
+    value: 'os-dependent',
+    description: 'Pythran complex_hook option',
 )