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Lawrence Kirby wrote:
> 
> In article <31DBE0AC.202B@ix.netcom.com>
>            sommers@ix.netcom.com "David Sommers" writes:
> 
> >Lawrence Kirby wrote:[.....]
> >The phrase "Pentium Pro built version" implies compiling the code for an
> >application (or game) using Pentium Pro machine code instructions and
> >optimization.
> 
> I suspect that most extra Pro instructions are for feature control rather
> than performance. It may have some extra 64 bit memory move instruction.
> Certainly procesor specific optimisations are useful - that's one of the
> methods Intel used to get good SPEC results.

Of course. And that's the same scam a developer can use to produce an
efficient product.

[.....]
> 
> DO you know many applications that supply separate 486 and Pentium
> optimised binaries?

No commercial ones, but I produce Pentium specific applications for 
embedded systems at work.

[.....]

> ID chose gcc to develop Quake (although code efficiency
> wasn't the only consideration there).

I suspect they were interested in portability across platforms, and
that they develop on UNIX boxes.

Bye.