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Received: from dragon.achilles.net (dragon.achilles.net [198.53.206.7]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA10931 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 05:38:57 -0700 Received: from zeus.achilles.net by dragon.achilles.net with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0s4SjT-0006XrC; Thu, 27 Apr 95 08:31 EDT Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 07:36:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul JY Lahaie <pjlahaie@achilles.net> To: Mat Hostetter <mat@ardi.com> cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: 486 optmization In-Reply-To: <m0s4FyJ-000GOeC@gwar.ardi.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950427073305.2351A-100000@zeus.achilles.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote: > reason to think the performance difference would be huge. We > benchmarked such a version long, long ago and found that an > 80486-specific version was something like 5-10% faster. How about a Pentium-specific Executor? Any idea on how much speed-up? With the 'Pentium' GCC, you get about 25% speed increase. Were there ever any thoughts of using a more advanced DOS compiler? (Watcom comes to mind). Or the C compiler on UnixWare... Which is supposed to be quite good at Pentium optimization. -- Paul JY Lahaie Internet: pjlahaie@achilles.net