Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/15/11:44:40
Reply-To: | <arfa AT clara DOT net>
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From: | "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
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To: | "DJGPP Mailing List" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: | RE: djgpp and optimizations
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Date: | Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:42:52 +0100
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> > Also when is djgpp going to officially support optimizations
> for the pentium?
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> When the GCC maintainers include them in the official GCC release.
How about gcc 2.8.1 (-mpentium, -march=pentium, -mcpu=pentium etc)?
> > Also is -fstrength-reduce stable yet?
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> It is stable since 2.7.2.1, but there are cases where it slows down your
> program. This has nothing to do with stability, it's a consequence of
> the small number of registers on the x86 CPUs.
What does -fstrength-reduce do, exactly, and why do some people report such
a huge speed increase when using it?
James Arthur
jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
ICQ#15054819
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