On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:13:02PM +0200, jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> 2. NetBSD uses gcc. The one and only architecture gcc produces really
> efficient code for is i386.

I thought gcc did better on architectures with lots of registers, like
MIPS and sparc?

> Alpha code generated by gcc is absolutely suboptimal.

so the rumors go.  luckily with OSF^WDigital^WTru64 and linux
compatibility, you could run the DEC^WCompaq compilers and get better
code:

http://www.compaq.com/hpc/software/software.html

I've been meaning to try this out on my 3000/400s, but haven't gotten
around to it yet...

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