From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 15 10:53: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A89937B403 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f8FHqrq53533; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:52:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Brodie Hynes , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: successful 4.4rc4 install on dec 3305 Message-ID: <20010915105252.A53451@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <0109150313040U.19946@orca.brodie.hn.org> <20010915094242.A55879@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010915094242.A55879@freebie.xs4all.nl>; from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:42:42AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:42:42AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Is this significant? Things seem to be running fine.... > > EV4 optimized (for what gcc Alpha optimisations are worth) code runs fine on > EV5 & EV6. Maybe not as quick. And some have speculated that EV4 "optimized" code may in fact be incorrect code. I.e., "gcc -O2 -mcpu=ev4" may generate more incorrect code than it would for "gcc -O2 -mcpu=ev5". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message