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Re: Influence of cache to performance on 386/486

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From: David Kastrup
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:41
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in11rwfg@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Fred Gerber) writes:


>We are planning to implement a high performance compiler 
>for a functional language on a MS-DOS machine with a 
>386DX Chip + 387 and accordingly a 486DX.
>We want to use also an explicit management of the 1. and 2.level
>cache.
>We are using the distribution of gnu gcc 1.39 on 386 and 
>we have some trouble.

This version is pretty outdated.

>Has anybody ported the gcc to a 486 platform?

the gcc-2 family supports 486. You can configure generation of 386 or
486 code, and override with compilation switches.

>Do we gain something using a specialized 486 gcc portation (
>not only speed) ?

Both codes will run on both sorts of machines, but code generation is
specially optimized for the requested target.
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From: dak@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
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Subject: Re: Influence of cache to performance on 386/486
Date: 13 Dec 92 15:41:53 GMT
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