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From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Support for Non-x86 chips ?
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96rindlow.980702002055.12030A-100000@sandra.lysator.liu.se>; from Dejan Ilic on Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:29:42AM +0200
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On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:29:42AM +0200, Dejan Ilic wrote:
> Don't know if this is the correct place to ask for it but..
> 
> Is there any known development being done on this list for the Alpha
> and/or PowerPC chips ?

No. Send me a fast alpha/powerpc and this might change ;->

> I tested a "real-life" program on both Intel P2-233Mhz and a
> PowerPC-750 (233MHz, Apple G3 computer with LinuxPPC) that does some
> heavy floating-point calculation and to my surprise the the G3 was
> about 10% slower. As everything I have heard says that PowerPC is
> better at floats than X86 I guess the compiler (gcc 2.7.1) did a bad
> job.

Have you tried egcs? it is supposed to generate faster code on alpha and
powerpc. also, if you use alphas, I was told that (using gcc), more
complicated functions (pow, sin) are very very slow.

> If I want to try to implement more for these (second most sold
> compared to Intel ?) chips whould this be a good place to start asking
> questions as I have rather small experience in compiler-construction
> field ?

subscribe yourself to egcs-request AT cygnus DOT com, which is a medium to high
volume list on gcc development. you will find people being able to answre
your questions there.

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