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From: clarence@station.net (Clarence Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: pentium-unknown-x86unix for gcc-2.7.x
Date: 31 Jul 1995 08:57:20 GMT
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hi there,

there was pentium-optimised gcc for up to 2.5.8, (archie gcc-i2.5.8p.tar.gz)
while the original gcc-i2.4.0p.tar.gz still lie on aurora.intel.com, i wish
to learned that there are some folks who wish to build such a beast for
freebsd/solaris.  the last evidence of performance improvement was
a 166K dhrystones/s with "-O4 -mpentium" of the i2.5.8p over
125K dhrystones/s with "-O4 -m486" of the stock 2.7.0 on the same
machine.  though the i2.5.8p generated code cause gdb-4.14 to dump
core.  i'm dreaming of the p5-optimised gcc for to generate the whole
FreeBSD as well as X, etc.  definitely looking for help to make such a
compiler.

clarence@cyber.net.hk