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Date:      Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:50:53 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How about gcj? (Re: Not committing WARNS settings...)
Message-ID:  <20020207105053.C64102@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020207193936.C19376@freebie.xs4all.nl>; from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:39:36PM %2B0100
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:39:36PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 3.1 will also be slower on the Alpha.  It is really an issue of the code
> > generator.  Generating x86 code on an Alpha is faster than generating
> > [native] Alpha code.  The Alpha code generator is slow.  It may be that
> > all 64 bit or RISC GCC code generation is slow -- we will see soon for
> > the sparc64.
> 
> Thanks. So it is the code generator itself, I always thought it would be
> the optimiser that needs more time to do a decent job on a RISC.

I lumped those two together.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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