Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:49:01 06/20/02
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On June 20, 2002 at 18:24:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 20, 2002 at 17:58:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On June 20, 2002 at 17:42:30, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Do you imagine that this will settle any argument beyond that particular >>>CPU/OS/compiler combination? >>>I don't. >> >>Why not? gcc is gcc. The HP-PA is your standard RISC chip. The OS doesn't >>matter. I don't see why the HP-PA would get more or less of a speedup going to >>64-bit than a MIPS, UltraSparc, POWER, or any other RISC chip. >> >>-Tom > > >Check out the optimizer. It behaves differently for different chips. It >does some well (intel). It does some horribly (sparc). Wouldn't it do consistently well or consistently badly? Then you still know the relative advantage of the 64 bit datapath. -Tom
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