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From: Mihai Moise <moisemih AT ift DOT ulaval DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Pentium specific tweaks?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:20:23 -0400
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Roger Cowley wrote:
> 
> I'm in the middle of a massive optimization process, and I'm just
> curious as to whether or not there are...for lack of a better word,
> things(ie commands, switches, etc.) that can be used to speed up
> execution time on a Pentium CPU.
> 

There is a pentium-optimizing version of the GNU C compiler. I used it
and liked it very much, though the version I had made the loader
generate signal 11 sometimes.

Intel published up to 30% speed increase using the optimizations
for benchmark tests ( yeah, story goes Intel contributed to it ). I
never timed anything myself.

Check out www.goof.com for the home page of the pentium compiler group.
It is not precompiled for ms-dos, however, it might be possible to
cross-compile from, for example, Linux.

I wish someone might inform us more about this possibility.

Mihai
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