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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
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Subject: Re: Pentium gcc (pgcc) in ports... 
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:33:01 -0800
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Nope pgcc is not a replacement for gcc. Just try it.
I think most people that into this sort things are using pgcc to 
further optimize floating point intense application and to 
a lesser extent integer intense applications -- provided of course
that the apps compile.

	Amancio

>>> "Marc G. Fournier" said:
 > On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote:
 > 
 > > Well, the general consesus is that someone drop the ball and in some
 > > programs like mpeg_play we lost oh about 30% performace from 
 > > a previous pgcc version.
 > >
 > 
 > 	Okay...that helps a little bit...but, were I to compare straight
 > 2.7.2 against pgcc...has pgcc been patched up enough that optimizations 
 > work as you would hope, and would the current pgcc's performance be better
 > then stock-2.7.2?  Or is there a lose in performance there too?
 > 
 > 	Would I be safe with replacing cc with pgcc?
 > 
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