[rescue] Perverse Question

[Dave McGuire]

On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 06:57 PM, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
>>    I've since dumped gcc with extreme prejudice on all my Ultras,
>> though...Sun's compiler is SO MUCH BETTER it's just ridiculous.
>> Seriously.  Just FYI. ;)
>
> Have you (or anyone) did any comparisons with the new scheduler
> in gcc 3.3?  They are finally supposed to have a way to describe
> asymmetric pipelines and such to the scheduler so it can do
> the right thing.  That seems to mean to methat until now, it's all
> been hacks to approximate that sort of thing.

   I've not tried 3.3 on SPARC.  Is there a paper or anything about 
these new optimizations?

       -Dave

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