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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!Germany.EU.net!arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de!arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de!not-for-mail From: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Pentium aware gcc compiler Date: 21 Jan 1994 08:54:09 +0100 Organization: Inst f Arbeitsphysiologie Dortmund Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2ho1n1$o1g@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> References: <wmbfmk.759067383@rwc.urc.tue.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de In article <wmbfmk.759067383@rwc.urc.tue.nl>, Marc van Kempen <wmbfmk@rwc.urc.tue.nl> wrote: >Hi, > >I was wondering if there is any work done to have gcc optimize for a >pentium. As I understand it this will boost its performance even more. Probably not, as Intel makes a secret of pentium-specific data. I wouldn't even expect a real performance boost. >This would make a pentium running NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. a >nice configuration to do some numbercrunching. For number crunching there are better machines available, not much more expensive than a pentium, but probably better hardware designed: HP 7xx (in float even more than in int), DEC AXP. -- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257