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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 20:16:41 -0400
Message-Id: <199607100016.UAA10942@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj>
To: leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <199607092343.JAA03257@gbrmpa.gov.au> (message from Leath Muller
on Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:43:04 +1000 (EST))
Subject: Re: djgpp v2

> Actually, does anybody know if id did any code changes to gcc to make it
> compile the code to run faster? I remember DJ saying a while back that a
> commercial program removed the zeroing of allocated memory...any other
> stuff done like this? DJ? :)

All the changes we did for id were done in the official stuff.  Unless
they did their own changes, they're using the same djgpp we are.  *We*
removed the sbrk initialization; all programs got a speed boost.

The way they got all that speed was by using LOTS of assembler.

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