Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 1997 04:33:38 -0600 | | From | Brian Roberson <> | | Subject | Re: <changed> Cyrix opt's |
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would it be worth the time to get egcs or pgcc and compiling with pent/Ppro ops??, would I see any improvements??
At 03:52 AM 12/28/97 -0600, kwrohrer@enteract.com wrote: >Because, unless you're using egcs or pgcc, the only differences (in >general) will be the alignments; no pentium or ppro- specific optimizations >are done by gcc. So, smaller binaries will take less memory bandwidth, >less cache (and VM) footprint, less disk loading time...and thus be faster. >Some of these reasons motivated CISC in the first place...
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