Kudos about ia32 stuff so far.

[John S. Dyson]

> John S. Dyson wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, when running on my SMP PPro system, the new EGCS/ia32 stuff
> > is significantly faster when running my simple set of benchmarks.
> > I sometimes use spice (circuit analysis), and if I get a chance,
> > I'll try to provide some feedback on the behavior.  So far, the
> > stuff looks alot like what has been needed on the ia32 for a
> > long, long time.
> 
> Doesn't sound like a bug to me (see subject :-)
>
Sorry, I am not always good at etiquette!!!  (I changed
the subject!!!)

> 
> Is that F spice or C spice ?
> 
Because I am so cheap, I use both spice2g6 (fspice) and
spice3f5 (cspice.)   When fspice doesn't appear to work
well (usually because of feature issues), I try cspice.  I
would much rather use Aplac, but at those prices, I
could purchase another machine.

So, my plan is to compile and try fspice first with the ia32
changes, and later play with cspice.  (Note that I preprocess
the source with f2c for now, because of the way that it is
set-up, but plan to try g77 later on.)  It might eventually be
interesting to do a comparison between f2c/egcs(with ia32
improvements) and g77 with ia32 improvements.

So, my first try will be to compare gcc/egcs-current and gcc/egcs
with the ia32 stuff.  Tonight, I have a deadline for work, but
will try to do it tonight or tomorrow.

John