Date:	Wed, 14 Dec 1994 22:53:53 +0900
From:	raraki AT human DOT waseda DOT ac DOT jp (Ryuichiro Araki)
To:	dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com, poulard AT laas DOT fr
Subject:	Re: Matrox card drivers ????
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>>  - Is there true that there will be a release of DJGPP
>>     with a -mPentium compilation option ???
>>     If yes WHEN ???
>
>This is not a djgpp issue.  If the FSF wants to release a
>pentium-specific version of gcc, that's up to them.  See the
>appropriate gnu mailing list or newsgroup for more info.

If somebody really needs Pentium-specific version of gcc, he/she can get 
gcc-i2.4.0p.tar.gz (gcc with Intel Enhancements for the Pentium CPU/Intel 
Architecture based on gcc-2.4.0) from ftp.intel.com or gcc-i2.5.8p.tar.gz 
(port to bring Intel's version up to 2.5.8 by Laurent Chemla) from 
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/GCC/src/ or some other sites via FTP.
Compiling them under djgpp environment are not so difficult unless you 
are quite a noivce of djgpp.  Intel has already contributed their code 
to FSF, so you can wait official release of gcc including Pentium-specific
optimization from FSF (I've heard that Richard M. Stallman had stated FSF 
would incorporate Intel's code into future release of gcc when he was in 
Japan:-)).

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   Ryuichiro Araki
   raraki AT human DOT waseda DOT ac DOT jp

# Increase in performance obviously depends on codes that you run,
# but in my experiences, it rated between 10 to 20% with Pentium (Intel
# stated it's up to 25%).

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