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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:18:58 -0800 (AKDT)
From:      Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using GCC3.x and/or CPML to Build World/Kernel
Message-ID:  <20020911120510.T54354-100000@xena.mikey.net>
In-Reply-To: <15743.39768.338356.544370@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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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



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