Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:33:01 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Pentium gcc (pgcc) in ports... Message-ID: <199602281933.LAA00729@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Feb 1996 14:20:26 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960228141847.13655B-100000@ki.net>
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Nope pgcc is not a replacement for gcc. Just try it. I think most people that into this sort things are using pgcc to further optimize floating point intense application and to a lesser extent integer intense applications -- provided of course that the apps compile. Amancio >>> "Marc G. Fournier" said: > On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > Well, the general consesus is that someone drop the ball and in some > > programs like mpeg_play we lost oh about 30% performace from > > a previous pgcc version. > > > > Okay...that helps a little bit...but, were I to compare straight > 2.7.2 against pgcc...has pgcc been patched up enough that optimizations > work as you would hope, and would the current pgcc's performance be better > then stock-2.7.2? Or is there a lose in performance there too? > > Would I be safe with replacing cc with pgcc? > > Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting > System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, > Administrator | | Information and > scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc >
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