From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake?
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> > The only reason we don't compile with -mpentium is because
> > we still didn't switch to GCC 2.9x for building the library, and
> > versions of GCC before 2.9x didn't support Pentium-specific
> > optimizations.
> 
> Then I guess I'll have to recompile everything from sources myself
> once the next DJGPP version is released, as one of my systems is
> 486SX-based.

I don't think so.  First, the next version (v2.03) is still compiled
with -m486.  Second, even when we do switch to -mpentium, it should
run on 486SX with no problems, and the slowdown due to Pentium
optimizations should be minimal.