Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 15:29:36 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Alex Keahan <alex@hightemplar.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history Message-ID: <20040626192936.GA24837@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <200406261906.32590.alex@hightemplar.com>
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Alex Keahan wrote: > You can use Sun's compilers for Intel to generate x86 assembly code and > (with a little bit of tweaking) assemble it with gas to create a native > FreeBSD binary. Last time I did that (ca. 2000), I measured a 20-30% > improvement in run-time execution speed. I get that improvement using gcc3 over gcc2 on intel. In fact, gcc these days, on my code, is a bit faster than Intel's compiler. Even on Solaris/sparc, I know many people who prefer gcc to Sun's compilers (perhaps not for speed reasons, but people who want numbercrunching speed don't use sparc any more anyway...) Rahulhome | help
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