On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 11:10:55PM +0100, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
I find my 21164LX-533 runs code compiled from C source with an Alpha
version of gcc about 4x as fast as an Intel PII-350 runs the same
code compiled with an Intel version of the same mark of the same
compiler.
Note that gcc is
Note that gcc is currently not very good for Intel chips (I think
PentiumGCC - http://www.goof.com/pcg/ fixes some problems there,
but it introduces more bugs), since it assumes that you have many
registers. Which 80x86s don't have :-( (Wish there was a way to
program P6 microcode directly!
From: Simon Burge [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
From what I understand of Merced, compiler technology is going to be the
problem. It's probably not unreasonable to expect large performance
increases as the intelligence of compilers (especially the "free"
compilers like gcc and egcs) catches up
I imagine you could significantly speed up the code by keeping
much of the
data in register. REG-REG operations take a lot less time than
a REG-MEM
operation. Should be delicious.
From what I understand of Merced, compiler technology is going to be the
problem. It's probably not
As for the compilers, remember that RISC type architecture is nothing
really
new...and EPIC type stuff has been around a while. There are already
compilers for other systems that contain much of the brains to do the
optimizations already...they just need to get those smarts moved over to
