}Alex said: }> }> The response(s) I got to my "I'm a newbie, anyone know about this problem" }> was basically met with "well no FreeBSD developers have contacted us, and }> if they did we'd accept/commit/whatever some changes..". }> }I expected that they would be cooperative (the EGCS group appears to be }culturally similar to us (modulo-GPL).) John Polstra is really our }most active ELF/Compiler person, and so he would likely be a better }"official FreeBSD" interface. He is also less politically likely to }insert his foot into his eating orifice. I do have some PPro mods, }and they appear to help performance on average. The PPro is a }really wierd creature (like the K6.) The darned processor does so }much optimization, it appears to be insensitive to code mods. There are ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Noticed that too, eh? Recently I hacked up some of the SSLeay asm code and while I could improve P5 performance about 30%, the best that I could do, with a lot of effort was maybe 4% for PII and PPro. The out-of-order execution seems to help a lot. Oh, and the P5 specific asm actually makes the PPro slow down over the C source; not good tidings for ye merry old tuners.

}areas of reasonable payoffs, and lots of "obvious" optimizations that }end up being neutral.

Yep. I wouldn't worry too much about other people's claims about code optimized for Pentium Pro.