native

Gets the best performance on the host system. 

The compiler generates code optimized for the host system. It determines the available architecture, chip, and cache properties of the machine on which the compiler is running. 

generic

Gets the best performance for generic architecture, chip, and cache. 

The compiler expands -xtarget=generic to:

-xarch=generic -xchip=generic -xcache=generic

This is the default value. 

platform-name

Gets the best performance for the specified platform. 

Select a SPARC platform name from the table in the following section.