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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9/linux/fbsd compiler shootout
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:26:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87it8k9agd.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81e5f075d4f6e99e18f165b27e6da906@plan9.bell-labs.com>

rob@plan9.bell-labs.com (rob pike) writes:

> Great, thanks.  I'd like to see a similar shootout using a non-floating-point
> application.

Me too.  Rob, can you say more about what 8c's shortcomings are in
floating point?  I think you alluded to them briefly, but I'm
interested in hearing more.  386 floating point is particularly
horrid; is the problem floating point in general, or is it floating
point on freaky fp stack things like the 386 has?

GCC had to develop a whole special extra codegen unit to manage to do
fp on a 386 anything approaching well, and without something like
that, it's pretty painful.

Thomas


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-26 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-26  3:10 rob pike
2002-02-26 10:26 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-26 15:02 andrey mirtchovski
2002-02-26 16:02 ` Wilhelm B. Kloke
2002-02-26 18:00   ` splite
2002-02-26 16:04 ` Matt H
2002-03-04 10:04 ` Gaute B Strokkenes
2002-02-26 14:20 rob pike
2002-02-26 16:07 ` Sean Quinlan
2002-02-26 14:18 rob pike
2002-02-26 11:15 forsyth
2002-02-26  3:05 andrey mirtchovski
2002-02-26 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-26 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG

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