Re: Yet another cyrix 6x86 question

Chai Harjo (c.harjo@student.anu.edu.au)
Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:21:23 +1100


Stephen S M Wong wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > For optimal perfomance on a Cyrix 6x86, should one compile as Pentium or
> > PPro ? I've tried both and they both run fine, but which is better?
>
> I think the current status is that, there is no difference, as no
> production version of gcc has PPro (nor Pentium) specific optimization
> yet. So, 486/Pentium/PPro flag should not make a difference. Maybe
> there are some conditional defines to make the memory alignment more
> generous for Pentium or PPro.
>

You can try pgcc.
The address is http://www.goof.com/pcg/

Chai