Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:18:56 +0200 (CEST) From: malte_gell AT t-online DOT de (Malte Gell) To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com Subject: updating a distribution to pgccc ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Sender: 320045263487-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id IAA05585 Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com Hello ! I just found this interesting pgcc site and have a few questions, but just one thing at first: since i have not subscribed to the pgcc mailing list, please also answer directly to me, thanx ! Well, now my questions: 1. Since so many people use a Pentium class CPU nowadays, why is it not a standard, that all distributions or the distributions "for personal use" (=standard distros for the home user like RedHat or Caldera or SuSE) use pgcc by default ? It makes me a bit angry somehow that i have a fast AMD based machine and the code is just optimized for an 486, in my eyes this is a waste of performance, or am i wrong ? 2. I am using SuSE Linux 7.0, how easy would it be to change completely to pgcc ? Is pgcc also optimized for AMD CPU´s ? What are your experiences with changing to pgcc ? Would i have to re-compile all my apps or can i still use them ? 3. How big would be the gain of performance if i change to pgcc ? (AMD K6-III 400 Mhz 128 MB RAM system, Kernel 2.2.16) Thanx a lot Malte -- __,, /o // "Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy ?" /_ ) "Because we use vi. They use emacs" /__| Dave Fischer, 1995/06/19