[geeks] Re: [rescue] linux ports

[Dave McGuire]

  Hmmm...that may be a big part of it.  Is anyone working on GCC's
non-Intel support?  The MIPS code generation kinda blows dog too..

      -Dave McGuire

On June 15, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> I was under the impression that the biggest problem with linux for the
> alpha was GCC being really aweful at compiling alpha code.
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   I will say that I'm very impressed with the performance of Linux on
> > SPARC hardware.  I wish they'd put the same amount of effort into
> > optimizing their Alpha support...it's just plain SLOW.  If they
> > address this, a DS10 or DS20 running Linux might very well be desktop
> > nirvana.
> > 
> >   NO BASHING HERE, DAMMIT.
> > 
> >         -Dave McGuire
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