Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chmouel Boudjnah ) writes:

> JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Mandrake's marketing claims strongly performance improvements due to
> > being compiled with PGCC (an unofficial GCC optimized for Pentiuls and
> 
> Mandrake's developpers claims using gcc2.95 and say it's make a big
> difference.

When I tested 2.95.2 a couple of months ago, it didn't. Most of the
time, the code was actually slower (compute-intensitive code).

At least, this was true on -march=k6/pentiumpro on K6-2/celeron366

(the other flag I used was "-O2").

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Systems Engineer - distribution team
Red Hat, Inc.

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