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Re: [Fwd: GCC2C compiler/converter]
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>
- Cc: tej at melbpc dot org dot au, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:10:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: GCC2C compiler/converter]
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <3D347B8D.EFDD4FFF@melbpc.org.au> <20020716.133929.82037424.davem@redhat.com>
"David S. Miller" wrote:
> From: Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 06:01:17 +1000
> Alexey Starovoytov wrote:
> ...
> > Here is a brief description of GCC2C:
> ...
> > This converter will be very helpful to developers who use GCC but want
> > enhanced performance on UltraSPARC platforms, particularly the US-III.
> > GCC 3.x has no support for US3 prefetch cache or other US3 specific
> > features. The number of supported optimizations in GCC is significantly
> > lower than in Forte. This converter delivers the best from both.
> Not true, loop prefetch for Ultra-I/II/III exists even in the current
> 3.1 sources. The mainline even has an Ultra-III specific scheduler
> description.
Better post that on comp.compilers, then - that's were the original
appeared (yes, I know, it isn't that clear from Tim's headers)
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