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[super-suser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

Hmmm...I dunno ;)

  Usually, SuSE isn't the first in line when it comes to new versions of GCC.  They like to stay safe when it comes to something so important.

  Yes, we bicker a lot about compilers here, but sometimes one just works better than the other...


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Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.2
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On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 02:24:08   Raymond C. Maple wrote:
>I am running a K6-200 clocked up to 225 with an old ATI Mach 64 graphics card.  At this point it seems plenty fast to me, at least for now, but if I can get more speed for free......
>
>BTW, I see a consistent distinction between GCC and EGCS in this group, but according to the gcc web page, they are now one and the same.  Does 6.2 still have older revision (pre merge) versions of gcc?  (I don't have linux up right now, or I would just check myself)
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>Ray Maple
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>Jon Pennington wrote:
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>>   What processor do you run now?  I compile my kernels for PPro with MTRR (no math emu or smp), and it runs just as stably as the stock kernel.  I have gcc and egcs installed fromt the 6.2 CD's.
>>
>>   As far as the X server goes, you may want to look into recomiling it with PGCC.  PGCC is a subset and list of optimizations to EGCS, much the same as EGCS is a subset and list of optimizations to GCC.  I will warn you that you *almost*always* trade stability for speed.  How fast do you want to go? :)
>>
>>   As far as Athlon support, I'll bet that the PGCC team is working on that, too.  Hang in there, and see what happens.  Keep an eye on http://www.goof.com/pcg/ for PGCC development.
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>> Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.2
>> super-suser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Kernel 2.2.10
>> Kansas City, Missouri, USA | AMD K6-2 350
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>> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:00:04   Raymond C. Maple wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >    I just recently installed 6.2 on my machine.  I am currently running
>> >the stock EIDE kernel as it came from the boxed CDs, and since it
>> >supports all the hardware that I care about for now, I see no
>> >overwhelming reason to compile a new version, EXCEPT....  I am assuming
>> >that the stock kernel was compiled with 496 (or even 386?)
>> >optimizations.  (similarly for the stock XFree86)  I was wondering if I
>> >will see any noticable performance improvement if I recompile the kernel
>> >and X with 586 optimizations turned on.
>> >
>> >Also, I see an Athlon machine somewhere in my future. 8)  Anyone heard
>> >of any effort underway to add Athlon specific optimizations to gcc?
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >Ray Maple
>> >
>> >
>> >
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