From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: djgpp and optimizations
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:52:27 +0300
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On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 tomstdenis AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:

> Also when is djgpp going to officially support optimizations for the pentium?

When the GCC maintainers include them in the official GCC release.

>  I would like to help, but heck I can't understand half of the djgpp source
> code.  PGCC is cool, but doesn't support djgpp (using gcc 2.8.1), so what's a
> person to do?

Get EGCS (I think a DJGPP port will be available soon).  It might also be 
that your application doesn't actually need PGCC (it typically speeds up
programs by 15%-20%).

> Also is -fstrength-reduce stable yet?

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.