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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2 vs Windows NT: Sun is losing the desktop on price
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:22:25 GMT
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- >The Sun-3s had several different compiler options for no-FPU machines,
- >machines with a 68881, machines with the Sun FPA, and for programs that
- >should figure out at run time which option they had.
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- Curiously enough, -fswitch seems to generate code that was *slower* than
- -fsoft code on a machine with a 68881, and slower than -f68881 on machines
- that have one. I just built everything with -fsoft unless I found something
- that got a significant boost from the 68881.
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