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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!wiley!rmallory From: rmallory@wiley.csusb.edu (Rob Mallory) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: whereis gcc-i2.6.3 port for FreeBSD ? Date: 8 Sep 1995 18:57:23 GMT Organization: California State University Sacramento Lines: 28 Message-ID: <42q3mj$hol@news.csus.edu> References: <42ldkk$t6q@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: rmallory%@wiley.csusb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] bill clarke (wlclarke@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote: : hello all : anyone know where i can get a FreeBSD port of gcc-2.6.3 with pentium optimizations? ftp://tns.csusb.edu/pub/unix/pentium/gcc-2.7.0-i2.7.0.diff.tgz : also, how stable is it? (gcc-i2.6.3). not recommended for make world or kernels or XFree86. but stable enough for cc,as,ld,xv,xanim, and many others. check that directory for some precompiled binaries. I'm doing a make world comparison to see how much time is saved with the pentium optimized compiler tools. 30% more fps with mpeg_play. Rob Mallory [rmallory@csusb.edu] ps: I just saw a white paper on compiler comparisons on Solaris-x86 it involved the SunPro compilers (2.01 and 3.01), metaware's compiler, intel's compiler, and gcc. gcc with -O ranked preaty much last against the others with -xpentium flags and -O2, -O7,..etc. I have a feeling that if someone got the pentium specific stuff working properly in gcc, it would be much closer, performance-wise to the others. ..the benchmarks ran were the SPEC '95 suite, and the SPEC '92. ...Anyone point me to the SPEC'95 stuff? Its a sure bet that FreeBSD with (or without) optimized libraries can put Slowaris to shame in the same benchmark suite.;)