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Re: 486 optmization



On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote:

> reason to think the performance difference would be huge.  We
> benchmarked such a version long, long ago and found that an
> 80486-specific version was something like 5-10% faster.

    How about a Pentium-specific Executor?  Any idea on how much 
speed-up?  With the 'Pentium' GCC, you get about 25% speed increase.  
Were there ever any thoughts of using a more advanced DOS compiler?  
(Watcom comes to mind).  Or the C compiler on UnixWare...  Which is 
supposed to be quite good at Pentium optimization.

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Paul JY Lahaie                           Internet: pjlahaie@achilles.net



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