X-pop3-spooler: POP3MAIL 2.1.0 b 4 980420 -bs-
X-Authentication-Warning: sandra.lysator.liu.se: svedja owned process doing -bs
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:29:42 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Dejan Ilic <svedja AT lysator DOT liu DOT se>
Reply-To: svedja AT lysator DOT liu DOT se
To: beastium <beastium-list AT Desk DOT nl>
Subject: Support for Non-x86 chips ?
In-Reply-To: <19980701215923.37550@cerebro.laendle>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96rindlow.980702002055.12030A-100000@sandra.lysator.liu.se>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
Status: RO
X-Status: A
Content-Length: 714
Lines: 19

Don't know if this is the correct place to ask for it but..

Is there any known development being done on this list for the Alpha
and/or PowerPC chips ?

I tested a "real-life" program on both Intel P2-233Mhz and a
PowerPC-750 (233MHz, Apple G3 computer with LinuxPPC) that does some
heavy floating-point calculation and to my surprise the the G3 was
about 10% slower. As everything I have heard says that PowerPC is
better at floats than X86 I guess the compiler (gcc 2.7.1) did a bad
job.

If I want to try to implement more for these (second most sold
compared to Intel ?) chips whould this be a good place to start asking
questions as I have rather small experience in compiler-construction
field ?

   Dejan