egcs1.0 performace on cyrix

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Sat Dec 6 09:23:00 GMT 1997


  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



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