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Re: egcs1.0 performace on cyrix
- To: Nuno Ferreira <nmrf at rnl dot ist dot utl dot pt>
- Subject: Re: egcs1.0 performace on cyrix
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 10:26:02 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <XFMail.971205213403.nmrf@rnl.ist.utl.pt>you write:
> pthreads bug. One question: should I use haifa scheduler or not?
I doubt Haifa will make much difference at this time on x86 machines.
> I compiled the haifa scheduler in and to test performance I compiled bzip2 and t
> ried testing a kernel-source.bz2. I timed this and old bzip2, compiled with gcc
> and there was no improvement(not that it proves anything, it's just one test).
Well, considering that bzip and other assorted compression programs
have very tight inner loops, I'm not real suprised.
Jeff