Message-ID: <465C3B178FD4D21192B40008C79FD87E878D5F@ehqmsg01.europe.stortek.com>
From: "Jessen, Per" <JesseP AT europe DOT stortek DOT com>
To: "'pgcc AT delorie DOT com'" <pgcc AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "'malte_gell AT t-online DOT de'" <malte_gell AT t-online DOT de>
Subject: RE: updating a distribution to pgccc ?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:30:57 +0100
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[snip]
> Well, now my questions:
> 1. Since so many people use a Pentium class CPU nowadays, why is it not
> a standard, that all distributions or the distributions "for personal
> use" (=standard distros for the home user like RedHat or Caldera or
> SuSE) use pgcc by default ? It makes me a bit angry somehow that i have
> a fast AMD based machine and the code is just optimized for an 486, in
> my eyes this is a waste of performance, or am i wrong ?

Your code is probably optimized for a 386 .... at least it should be.
AFAIK, only Mandrake is shipping a Pentium-optimized distro.
SuSe used to enable everything to be installed on a 386, but someone
did tell me recently that the bootable SuSe 7.0 image/CD won't boot
on a K6 ? Anyway, why distributors don't automatically distribute pgcc -
it's probably for the same reason that we have gcc/egcs and pgcc.

> 2. I am using SuSE Linux 7.0, how easy would it be to change 
> completely
> to pgcc ? Is pgcc also optimized for AMD CPU´s ? What are your
> experiences with changing to pgcc ? Would i have to re-compile all my
> apps or can i still use them ?

Huh ??? If you want to take advantage of the pgcc pentium-optimizations
you would obviously have to recompile your applications or at the very
least your libraries. I have a single SuSe (6.1) system where I'm using 
pgcc - no problems whatsoever.


regards,
Per Jessen