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--hardware-optimized to all bash script builds (non-windows) which does the above march/mtune internally. Note that no rationalization between this option and enabling optimization explicitly is performed (if you explicitly ask for something, you get it along with the above, explicit disable does not shut off something detected via this mechanism).
Users could always do this explicitly, with the same interactions arising with build scripts.