Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 15:35:42 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: COMDEX trip report) Message-ID: <7681.849656142@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 1996 09:28:30 CST." <199612031528.JAA10819@beowulf.utmb.EDU>
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> If you guys decide to pursue the Alpha port (and I hope you do), > please give due consideration to the several reasons why people > might want to run Alphas instead of, e.g., PPros. One major reason We do, believe me. I spent some time with the ALPHA people during the show discussing just that, and I think there is a strong case for it. It's a bit premature to be kicking off the FreeBSD/ALPHA project just yet, so I'm going to save that bit of noisemaking for when we're truly ready to start, but that will hopefully be soon. > is for serious number crunching. To that end, I would like to see > g77 integrated into the gcc/cc which ships with the system. The > relationship of g77 (which makes changes to the gcc backend to > support Fortran) to the system gcc/cc (which is not compiled as a > Gnu project gcc) has never been very clear to me. On 2.1.5R, I Well, these seem like reasonable arguments to this non-user of fortran (which is my way of saying to take my opinions with a dump truck of salt :), I think the major "barrier" at this point will simply be in finding someone on the committers list who shares your needs for fortran to sponsor the integration of it. It almost always comes down to finding someone to actually do the work. :) Jordan
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