From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 10 20:36:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93DF31540C for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:36:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA98556; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:36:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA44575; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:36:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:36:45 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Coleman Kane Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable? Message-ID: <20000110203645.D62163@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <20000109214046.7913BA54DB@netcom1.netcom.com> <20000110004054.A1181@evil.2y.net> <20000110094834.D94525@relay.nuxi.com> <20000110153703.A19250@evil.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000110153703.A19250@evil.2y.net>; from cokane@one.net on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:37:03PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, GCC 2.95.x can be patched for pentium, ppro, and k6 optimization > to make your programs run faster and more efficiently. If you could > compile the base system with it, you would glean more performance from > the box. If you go to http://www.goof.com/pcg/ you can see what I'm > talking about, Yes, but I have yet to have *anyone* post any numbers that show that using `pgcc' made their system "faster". I have heard from people that `pgcc' made this system less stable. `pgcc' is an experimental testing grounds for new IA-32 optimizations. This implies the code it produces may not be the most robust. Me, I'll only use a world and kernel built by a released version of GCC. > there is also a port in /usr/ports/lang/pgcc. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Like no kidding. Who do you think made that port and maintains it?? Geez. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message