On 03/26/2002 17:31, "Jon Buller" <jon@bullers.net> wrote:

> report.  I'm also curious if those GCC flags will have as much
> effect as they do on my SPARCStation.  Mine has a multiply
> instruction, the default flags use a function call to emulate it
> instead.  That is so the code will run on older hardware.  As you
> can probably guess, things like ssh's RSA encryption run a lot
> faster if you don't emulate one of the fundemental building blocks.


That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

-- 

Ryan "My hometown is nowhere, my friends are everywhere." La Riviere

System Administrator; Drexel University
215.895.6010
<http://staff.tdec.drexel.edu/~edljedi/>