Re: [AD] sincos

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On April 9, 2002 08:27 am, you wrote:
> On 2002-04-09, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > - grabber sorting option
> >
> > There is a related feature request on SF's tracker for a long time and
> > Peter ruled against it because of backward compatibility. IIRC your patch
> > breaks it too, doesn't it ?
>
> If it's selected on a per-file basis (as I think was suggested on SF
> message thingy) it should be fine.  I wanted it in the past too, though
> not right now.
>
> > > - add -pipe to the compilation command line
> >
> > Looks ok to me. Peter, are you ok to apply it now ?
>
> Last time I saw this in the gcc man page:
>
>        -pipe  Use pipes rather than temporary files for  communi-
>               cation  between  the various stages of compilation.
>               This fails to work on some systems where the assem-
>               bler cannot read from a pipe; but the GNU assembler
>               has no trouble.
>
> I forget where the discussion went after that.  Anyway, it should
> disablable in configure.  And does it really give a speed boost?
> I couldn't tell, I think.

Deffinitly. I tested with a fairly large file (auto generated OPs for a 
virtual machine, about 329k) It deffinitly made a difference.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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