Compiler optimization for Geode/Floating Point pipeline

[Jim Gettys]

Alex would love to help.
                         - Jim


On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 23:02 -0600, Rob Savoye wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:33:22PM -0700, Brian Carnes wrote:
> 
> > What aspects of this issue/request for help are still open?  I'll go take
> > a look at the OLPC build system tonight to see what is being used (late
> > versions of GCC do have some Geode -mtune/-march modes), but would love to
> > be hooked into whatever project is addressing this
>  
>   There is more info on geode optimizations for GCC and glibc at:
> http://wiki.gnashdev.org/wiki/index.php/Building_OLPC_Tools. There is some
> minor tweaking of the optimizer for the geode, it's mostly treated as a
> pentium class processor. While it could be better, with these patches it's
> still better than the default of pentium. Anyway, I'd love to work with folks
> that are also into shaving cycles whereever possible.
> 
> 	- rob -
> 
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