diff --git a/archivers/paq/Makefile b/archivers/paq/Makefile
index 62ce3684a8cc..4402a56b6c87 100644
--- a/archivers/paq/Makefile
+++ b/archivers/paq/Makefile
@@ -1,82 +1,74 @@
 # New ports collection makefile for:   paq
 # Date created:                5 April 2007
 # Whom:                        bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com>
 #
 # $FreeBSD$
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	paq
-PORTVERSION=	8.l
+PORTVERSION=	8.n
 CATEGORIES=	archivers
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/
-DISTNAME=	paq8l
+DISTNAME=	paq8n
 
 MAINTAINER=	bf2006a@yahoo.com
 COMMENT=	An archiver with an extremely high compression ratio
 
 NO_WRKSUBDIR=	yes
 USE_ZIP=	yes
 SUB_FILES=	pkg-message
 PLIST_SUB=	DISTNAME=${DISTNAME}
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if !defined(WITHOUT_ASM) && ${ARCH} == "i386" && !defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING)
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	nasm:${PORTSDIR}/devel/nasm
-CXXFLAGS+=	-DUNIX -Os
+CXXFLAGS+=	-DUNIX -O3
 ASM1?=	nasm -f elf -o
 ASM2?=
-.if !defined(WITH_SSE)
 ASMFILE=	paq7asm
-.else
-ASMFILE=	paq7asmsse
-.endif
 STRIP=
 .elif !defined(WITHOUT_ASM) && ${ARCH} == "amd64" && !defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING)
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	yasm:${PORTSDIR}/devel/yasm
-CXXFLAGS+=	-DUNIX -Os
+CXXFLAGS+=	-DUNIX -O3
 ASM1?=	yasm -f elf64 -o
 ASM2?=	-a x86 -m amd64
 ASMFILE=	paq7asm-x86_64
 STRIP=
 .else
 WITHOUT_ASM=	yes
-CXXFLAGS+=	-DUNIX -DNOASM -Os
+CXXFLAGS+=	-DUNIX -DNOASM -O3
 .endif
 
 pre-everything::
 	@${ECHO_MSG}
 	@${ECHO_MSG} "If you have an older (pre-1997) x86 CPU without MMX instruction"
 	@${ECHO_MSG} "support, or if you wish to use the (usually slower) C++ code"
 	@${ECHO_MSG} "instead of the equivalent assembly language routines that are"
 	@${ECHO_MSG} "enabled by default on x86 and amd64 architectures, hit Ctrl-C"
 	@${ECHO_MSG} "now and use \"make WITHOUT_ASM=yes\"."
 	@${ECHO_MSG}
-	@${ECHO_MSG} "If you wish to use the version of the assembly code that is"
-	@${ECHO_MSG} "optimized for x86 (not amd64) processors with SSE instruction"
-	@${ECHO_MSG} "support, hit Ctrl-C now and use \"make WITH_SSE=yes\"."
-	@${ECHO_MSG}
 
 do-build:
 .if !defined(WITHOUT_ASM)
 	${ASM1} ${WRKSRC}/${ASMFILE}.o ${ASM2} ${WRKSRC}/${ASMFILE}.asm
 	${CXX} ${WRKSRC}/${DISTNAME}.cpp ${CXXFLAGS} -o ${WRKSRC}/${DISTNAME} ${WRKSRC}/${ASMFILE}.o
 .else
 	${CXX} ${WRKSRC}/${DISTNAME}.cpp ${CXXFLAGS} -o ${WRKSRC}/${DISTNAME}
 .endif
 
 do-install:
 .if !exists(${PREFIX}/bin)
 	${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/bin
 .endif
 	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/${DISTNAME} ${PREFIX}/bin
 .if !defined(NOPORTDOCS)
 .if !exists(${DOCSDIR})
 	${MKDIR} ${DOCSDIR}
 .endif
 	${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/${DISTNAME}.cpp ${DOCSDIR}
 	${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/readme.txt ${DOCSDIR}
 .endif
 	${CAT} ${PKGMESSAGE}
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/archivers/paq/distinfo b/archivers/paq/distinfo
index 80752fd04592..993840718847 100644
--- a/archivers/paq/distinfo
+++ b/archivers/paq/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (paq8l.zip) = c57b6a1915b86d42f820e7f249b0ccf6
-SHA256 (paq8l.zip) = fb72db122f89faedcc729fe1e3324cac57c9c48903e72107c8350cdbe5e374cf
-SIZE (paq8l.zip) = 181334
+MD5 (paq8n.zip) = a05c932155d6b67a3e95fb1a46693d6d
+SHA256 (paq8n.zip) = d90964ac9c3f539e433883845cbdc511ee13f6e920e64ccd0d369d1ddab0a5bc
+SIZE (paq8n.zip) = 85065