On Tue, Mar 19 2002 at 01:10:15 -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:14:12 +0100
> "Thilo Manske" <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> wrote:
> > BTW: You get sightly better results using -mv8 than -msupersparc on s SS5 (I
> > think -msupersparc doesn't only use the v8 instcructions, it tunes the code
> > for superscalar execution for supersparc cpus as well).
> 
> This isn't true on either of my SS5 machines (a 110MHz and a 170 turboSPARC).
Well, I haven't mentioned it, but I was talking about -current and gcc
2.95.3. Maybe the picture is different with older versions of gcc.

With gcc 2.9.5 you get around ~>3% more dhrystones per second (with optimization
of libc as well probably more) on a SS5 with 110MHz µSparc II.

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