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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9/linux/fbsd compiler shootout
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:26:49 +0000
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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