From: "David Jonsson" <David DOT Jonsson AT ellemtel DOT se>
To: <pgcc AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Intel/Cygnus
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:27:39 +0100
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This is far from trivial. The C syntax need to be abandoned if the optimization is to be transparent from the programmer, see SWAR http://shay.ecn.purdue.edu/~swar/

Another approach is to use a MACRO like addition to ordinary compilers. This is what Apple has done with AltiVec wich is more promising than MMX or KNI/SSI, http://developer.apple.com/hardware/altivec/model.html

How could INTEL help Cygnus? Where did you read that?

The instruction set for KNI is available at http://www.sandpile.org/ What more does a compilerbuilder need?

David

 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Philip Long[SMTP:PLONG AT MITRE DOT ORG]
> > Sent: 	Wednesday, March 03, 1999 6:12:52 PM
> > To: 	'pgcc AT delorie DOT com'
> > Subject: 	Intel/Cygnus
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>     I read a news story a while back stating that Intel was going to
> help cygnus with pentium MMX/KNI etc. optimizing compilers.
> 
>     Is that for egcs?  Does it have any relation to the pgcc patch.  For
> that matter, why isn't pgcc merged into the egcs tree anyway?
>