[geeks] Re: [rescue] linux ports

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Cygnus is supposedly doing a lot of non-intel work.  Intel sponsered a lot
of IA-64 work (OK, still intel, but really, GCC isn't as good as it should
be on anything newer than a pentium classic).  I think most of Cygnus'
work is aimed toward low end devices (like the r5k instead of the r10+k)
rather than high end devices.  What we need is for Sun and IBM to sponser
more optimization work for their platforms.  Wouldn't surprise me if that
was part of the $1billion that IBM plans to spend on free software.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 
>   Hmmm...that may be a big part of it.  Is anyone working on GCC's
> non-Intel support?  The MIPS code generation kinda blows dog too..
> 
>       -Dave McGuire
> 
> On June 15, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > I was under the impression that the biggest problem with linux for the
> > alpha was GCC being really aweful at compiling alpha code.
> > 
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> > 
> > On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > >   I will say that I'm very impressed with the performance of Linux on
> > > SPARC hardware.  I wish they'd put the same amount of effort into
> > > optimizing their Alpha support...it's just plain SLOW.  If they
> > > address this, a DS10 or DS20 running Linux might very well be desktop
> > > nirvana.
> > > 
> > >   NO BASHING HERE, DAMMIT.
> > > 
> > >         -Dave McGuire
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