>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Me> 1) PGCC isn't in slink or potato. I can't find it on
Me> FreshMeat, either. Is it available as a .deb anywhere else?
Joey> It's worth checking if the gcc in unstable can do the
Joey> optimizations well enough.
EGCS specifically does NOT have the K6 optimizations.
Joey> Check out pentium-builder.deb, in unstable. [other help...]
Alrighty! Thanks for the pointers.
Me> 4) Is anyone else interested in a K6-optimized version of
Me> Debian (which I've dubbed "K-Rad Debian" in my own head, just
Me> because it sounds good)?
Joey> Well I've been working for a while on doing a pentium
Joey> optimized version of debian. However, my benchmarks of how
Joey> much -mpentium helps when stuff like gzip are build with
Joey> egcs arn't too impressive. I've been thinking about trying
Joey> pgcc.
OK, well pgcc claims a 2-30% improvement over straight i386 for
Pentium compiles. So, neat.
Oh, here's a guy who did some comparisons with PGCC over EGCS. some
things are clocked about 10% faster -- I don't know what that means.
http://www.acnatsci.org/~gnielsen/pgcc/
Thanks for your help.
~ESP
