On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:00:31PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> According to the consensus in multiple discussions of this matter,
> the turbo and micro do respond well to -mcpu=supersparc.  

which confuses that crap outta me. ;)

> When I did some quick testing with openssl, I got better performance
> using -mcpu=supersparc rather than -mv8 alone.  But there was nothing
> scientific about my tests since -mv8 was such a drastic benefit alone.
> 
> In any case, it seems the problem is the toolchain and upgrading needs to
> happen.
> 
> Cross-compiling on my faster workstation sounds interesting.  I really
> hate to upgrade a stable 1.5.2 server pair, but maybe 1.6 will be
> compelling enough to make it happen.

so what would be a good set of test to run to check the difference in speed?
my sparc5 is kinda busy at the moment, but i may be able to dig up another on
for testing.  i'd like to be able to slap some conclusive evidence in the
NetBSD/sparc FAQ if at all possible.

-brian
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