18 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-currentRe: Pentium optimizations| From | Sent On | Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| Alex | Dec 16, 1997 6:59 pm | |
| Tim Liddelow | Dec 16, 1997 8:05 pm | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 16, 1997 8:37 pm | |
| Alex | Dec 16, 1997 9:17 pm | |
| Tim Liddelow | Dec 16, 1997 9:36 pm | |
| Scott Michel | Dec 16, 1997 10:02 pm | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 16, 1997 10:23 pm | |
| Brian Handy | Dec 16, 1997 10:47 pm | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 16, 1997 11:04 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Dec 16, 1997 11:49 pm | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 17, 1997 12:04 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Dec 17, 1997 2:55 am | |
| Warner Losh | Dec 17, 1997 7:09 am | |
| Russell L. Carter | Dec 17, 1997 7:42 am | |
| Eivind Eklund | Dec 17, 1997 10:13 am | |
| Tim Liddelow | Dec 17, 1997 2:26 pm | |
| Doug Rabson | Dec 18, 1997 12:35 pm | |
| John Polstra | Dec 21, 1997 1:35 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Pentium optimizations | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Alex (garb...@hooked.net) | |
| Date: | Dec 16, 1997 9:17:24 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-current | |
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:
I also have been lurking, and frankly the EGCS compiler is a fantastic improvement. There is a LONG LONG way to go before the compiler will be ready for us (but considering the progress that they have been making,
It's quite nice to see some progress on gcc, in fact for a while I wondered if 2.7.x was the last release of gcc. Guess not ;-)
[...]
We should do better to support the effort, and optionally offer the EGCS compiler as a port. My guess is that it won't be ready to be the 3.0-RELEASE default compiler.
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..".
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