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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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