Mail Archives: pgcc/1999/03/15/21:08:34
Dan Bethe wrote:
>
> pcg AT goof DOT com, tech
> Subject: MIPS optimizing compiler
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> Message-ID: <14061 DOT 27036 DOT 934932 DOT 996697 AT dan DOT varesearch DOT com>
>
> Hi there everyone. Forgive me for not subscribing to this
> list; perhaps you can cc me to any response.
> I was chatting with Marc a while back about cpu optimizing
> compilers for non-x86 architectures. He said that MIPS is his
> favorite. I offered to share my Mac from here, but Germany's ISP
> charges are high! Well I finally figured out how to get people some free
> hardware as their test suite, on location.
> I've made some friends at SGI, which pretty much involved
> getting a job at VA Research (the Linux company! :^) and meeting a
> former SGI coworker here. That is Chris Lawrence
> (claw AT varesearch DOT com), who knows the
> people who are in charge of SGI's Linux divisions. They are doing
> some semisupersecret maneuvers to somehow integrate SGI and Linux. But
> that's not as important to this discussion, as is the fact that they
> sometimes have a habit of giving away development hardware to
> developers! Yay!
> Also for those of you who HAVE to keep up with this x86 stuff,
> I'm also good friends with the developers of Stampede Linux (the fully
> pgcc-optimized linux distribution) and we found some contact people
> inside Intel who are working on Linux. Furthermore, HJ Lu
> (hjl AT varesearch DOT com) is working on binutils, egcs, and all that on
> multiple architectures including x86.
> Forgive the blanket nature of this email; I'm just trying to
> spark some ideas and gauge some interest. And I'm particularly
> interested in hearing back from Marc Lehmann (sp?).
> As always, VA Research is also interested in giving away its
> own hardware as well as hosting sites via our free network
Well, haven't they exposed one of those 8-way 2GB Xeon-Boxes
on the Linux coming out party?
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/lwce_winter99/Day2/Showfloor.html
:/s/Zubkoff
I would be strongly interested in a
8-way _K7_ 600MHz 4GB XBAR UWSCSI2/IEEE-1394 machine
& wouldn't mind some resp. all possible pgcc optimizations
for that one, either! ;-)
Neither a 4-way 1GHz 8GB ALPHA with egcs, BTW :-))
(just kidding)
> connectivity for opensource community projects (let's make our ISP cry "uncle"!) :-}
> So who's interested? Let's help change the world.
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