Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 03:08:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Henrik Berglund SdU X-Sender: adb94hbd AT legolas DOT mdh DOT se To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: K6 & i686 ASM code In-Reply-To: <37433767.419E0118@lycosmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id VAA00383 Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: pgcc AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 19 May 1999, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > What about gzip and kernel and zlib ASM code, should I not use gzip/zlib ASM??, hmm is there any asm in gzip/zlib thought itīs suposed to be written in portable c-code only, is there asm code for all the different processors? inline asm? > and what about kernel??? I don't know of a choice as to whether or not to use ASM > for that. Can EGCS or PGCC make as good or better code than the hand-optimized > ASM? -mi686 -mi586 -mk6 are only switches that turn on specific scheduling and compiler optimisations for that processor. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henrik DOT Berglund AT mds DOT mdh DOT se http://www.mds.mdh.se/~adb94hbd/