From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 23 07:05:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA12299 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 07:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA12287 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 07:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id OAA04224; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:38:40 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199712231338.OAA04224@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: pgcc ports To: andreas@wup.de (Andreas Klemm) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 14:38:40 +0100 (MET) Cc: garbanzo@hooked.net, ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19971223141928.48178@wup.de> from "Andreas Klemm" at Dec 23, 97 02:19:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Should I remove pgcc completely ? > We could try to make a new port egcs ... I think those people > make the most success ... I am not well informed, is anyone aware of the quality (i.e. efficiency) of code produced by egcs compared to the gcc used in FreeBSD ? Just a curiosity, but perhaps many people are wondering if we can gain some 20-30% performance on highly computational intensive processes (read: signal processing and multimedia...) by just swapping compiler instead of forking out money for a faster processor... Thanks Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________