Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 07:24:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation Message-ID: <200011020724.AAA00778@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <14848.44982.354268.277746@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from "Andrew Gallatin" at Nov 01, 2000 07:12:39 PM
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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.. This broaches a subject I've been pondering for a bit now, which is probably going to provoke some flamage and gnashing of teeth. It seems to me that FreeBSD itself is 4x slower than it needs to be on Alpha. What are the chances of compiling FreeBSD itself with the Compaq compilers? This would seem to be the natural next step, and it also seems to me that this could accelerate the Alpha developement and increase general Alpha stability immensely. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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