Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 19:12:39 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: obrien@freebsd.org Subject: linux emulation Message-ID: <14848.44982.354268.277746@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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The first bits of linux emulation for alpha has been committed to -current, (largely thanks to the heroic efforts of David O'Brien). The emulation is currently good enough to support running Applixware, the compaq C compiler, and a few other random things. Instructions for installing and running the Compaq C compiler are available from http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/compaq_ccc_instructions. The reason to care about the compaq compilers is that they generate much better code than gcc. Something like a 4x speedup is not unheard of with floating point intensive apps. This will (hopefully) be coming to -stable fairly soon.. Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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