Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:12:59 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Ender <ender@tog.net> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.cpu.mk bsd.dep.mk bsd.lib.mk bsd.sys.mk src/sys/conf files kern.mk kern.pre.mk kmod.mk src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Makefile Message-ID: <20040318141259.17bbce92@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4059F314.90004@tog.net> References: <200403122136.i2CLaCm9096276@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040315033213.GA40858@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040315180324.0fa39609@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20040318002208.GC2541@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040318162358.3f57aef3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20040318172827.GB41559@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040318131238.12142bf1@localhost> <4059F314.90004@tog.net>
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:05:56 -0500 Ender <ender@tog.net> wrote: > Tom Rhodes wrote: > > >On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:28:27 -0800 > >"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Just to be clear -- I'm not against supporting a 2nd compiler in /usr/src > >> > >> > > > >Then why voice any opinion at all? > > > > > > > >>at all. Just don't think Intel is the most gracious compiler vendor. > >> > >> > > > >Oh, because you don't like Intel? I agree that they're greedy, but > >that shouldn't really ... > > > > > > > >>I'll also strongly push back on ever using 'icc' as part of the release > >>build. > >> > >> > > > >push back a release build. Are you worried that the 'rumors?' of > >better, more optimized binaries going to hurt the AMD effort? > > > > > > > Your comments are a lot more biased than the original comments. It has > already been shown that the intel compiler "advantages" run exactly the > same on a AMD cpu. (after forcing the changes to ignore the cpu type) It > has also been stated that a company is in full right to apply whatever > advantages to there product they see fit, and i agree. I also believe > that if we are going to support a change that clearly gives advantages > to one cpu type, we should spend a equal amount of time supporting > advantages to all specific cpu types. ( the EFER.NXE in the > FreeBSD/amd64 loader for example) > Umm, I'm really wondering if you're talking to David or myself. -- Tom Rhodes
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