From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 7 10:51: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAFE37B41D for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g17Iorx64258; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:50:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:50:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Wilko Bulte Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How about gcj? (Re: Not committing WARNS settings...) Message-ID: <20020207105053.C64102@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020206192238.B3347@dragon.nuxi.com> <200202070539.g175dbQ22609@aldan.algebra.com> <20020207101133.B53237@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020207192957.B19376@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020207103541.D53237@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020207193936.C19376@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020207193936.C19376@freebie.xs4all.nl>; from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:39:36PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:39:36PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 3.1 will also be slower on the Alpha. It is really an issue of the code > > generator. Generating x86 code on an Alpha is faster than generating > > [native] Alpha code. The Alpha code generator is slow. It may be that > > all 64 bit or RISC GCC code generation is slow -- we will see soon for > > the sparc64. > > Thanks. So it is the code generator itself, I always thought it would be > the optimiser that needs more time to do a decent job on a RISC. I lumped those two together. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message