From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 16 19:00:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA28416 for current-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 19:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@libya-204.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA28258 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:58:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA01608 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:59:42 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:59:42 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: current Subject: Pentium optimizations Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been lurking on the egcs list, and a few Linux/x86ites have been tossing around various Pentium or K6 enhanced functions (strlen and memcpy come to mind). I was wondering what the chance of this actually being merged into the -current cc? I was hopin we could get some Pentium optimizations without having to use the (as of now) fairly incompatable egcs. Or maybe get some of the dynamic library gunk merged into egcs. - alex