From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 11 13:19: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60BE37B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tibor.org (117-5-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.5.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CD643E4A for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tibor@tibor.org) Received: from xena.mikey.net (xena.mikey.net [192.168.1.2]) by tibor.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FDEAD62; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:18:56 -0800 (AKDT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:18:58 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mike Tibor X-X-Sender: tibor@xena.mikey.net To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using GCC3.x and/or CPML to Build World/Kernel In-Reply-To: <15743.39768.338356.544370@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: <20020911120510.T54354-100000@xena.mikey.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Its mainly a matter of somebody who understands both asm formats, and who > has the time to do the manual cranking. If you'd like to do the job, > go for it! There have been other people talking about building the > world with icc (the intel c compiler) on x86. You might want to > collaborate with them. Sigh... I wish I could, but my background is much more networking than coding. :-( > > Using Linux on the old AS200, I had some success rebuilding most binaries > > that had been linked to libm, with cpml. Any opinions how that might work > > on FreeBSD? > > It should work fine. In many cases, just linking with cpml provides > 90% of the speedup that compiling with ccc would provide. Great--I'll try this one. Thanks very much! Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message