On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:34:21PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	When changing the default it will be important to ensure we do
> 	not impair the binaries performance on other (non supersparc)
> 	sparc systems. +10% on a supersparc is probably worth -1% on a
> 	sun4c, but not -10% :)

Well, for me it was something like +250% for some things... :)

Actually, now and then you find things which just scream with the tuning.
Not having real multiply hurts some things _very_ badly.

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