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Subject: Re: HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:50:13 06/20/02

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On June 20, 2002 at 18:49:01, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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


No.  In fact, some old GCC versions will break crafty because they don't
optimize the long long stuff correctly at all.



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