Re: [AD] Allegro & SPARC

[Robert Ohannessian <ohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> > Do you mean asm optimizations ? I'd say, if they can somehow be reused on
> > "modern" Sparc machines, maybe. Otherwise, let this dinosaur die 
> peacefully :-)

I don't think they are: for one thing branch delay slots are different. 
For another, instructions have very different timings and latency. This 
would be very much like writting 386-optimized code and expecting good 
performence out of the PPro (which isn't likely to happen).


> And of course I know absolutely nothing about the Sparc assembly language, 
> so I'm not sure if I can improve on gcc's output - but I'll see.

gcc's output is pretty tight, IME.