[geeks] -fast option on Sun's compiler.

Dave McGuire geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Dec 13 18:19:42 CST 2001


On December 13, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> Before I get to RC5, I tried two versions of gzip, one "generic sparc,
> compiled with gcc" and the other "with -fast, ultrasparc only".
...
> Not a huge difference, but there. (About 9% faster)

  Certainly worthwhile.  I'll bet, however, that there are some parts
of gzip which would exhibit significant performance improvements with
some VIS acceleration.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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