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...
>
> Keith
>
>
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