Date:	Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:17:06 +0800 (GMT)
From:	Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To:	Nathaniel Meo <flyboy AT ari DOT net>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Pentium DJGPP?
In-Reply-To:	<4skjah$irs@ari.ari.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SGI.3.93.960718191136.24059A-100000@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Nathaniel Meo wrote:

> Is there any patch or modified source code for DJGPP that I could use
> to have programs optimized for the Pentium? Or is there some option
> which I don't know about?
> 

There is a Pentium patch available on SunSite, as well as another place in
the Netherlands.

I have placed the fully-patched gcc-2.7.2 source code on my lab's FTP
server:

ftp://natalie.eee.upd.edu.ph/pub/linux/weirdscience/gcc-2.7.2p-pl9.tar.gz

(that's a pretty long URL, sorry I can't help the length of my domain!)

Don't worry about the "linux" bit, the source code should compile on most
anything.. you'll have to compile it yourself though. It's the unaltered
GNU source, with the Pentium patches applied.

I made just one simple test: the register dhrystone-2 with -O3 on a 100MHz
Pentium gave 194K dhrystones with 486 optimizations (same speed as a SPARC
SS20) and 222K dhrystones with the Pentium optimizations. This was running
under Linux.

If you can get the patches elsewhere, good for you, since our connection
is only 64K. Note that the full patched source is 8Meg gzipped.

Cheers,

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Orlando Andico                           http://gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph/~orly/
orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph                "Who knows what's going to happen,
IRC Lab/EE Dept/UP Diliman     lottery or car crash, or you'll join a cult."

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