On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Emiel Kollof wrote:

: > so gcc is obviously producing much better code on this machine when
: > -mcpu=supersparc is used.  and this is with the older compiler...
:
: With all the speed increase due to a simple tuning option in gcc:
:
: Would it be an idea to release a SS5/SS10 optimized snapshot somewhere?

I can pretty much assume that 80%+ of the speed increase is due to using the
mul/div v8 builtin.  This speed can be achieved without a completely
separate snapshot by implementing the libc v8 extension I mentioned earlier.

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