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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 03:28:52 +0100
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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.