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From: Nickolay Kolchin-Semyonov <snob@metalinkltd.com>
To: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>, Christophe Michel <tofm2@yahoo.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] architecture optimisation at compile time for ocaml 3.06
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:08:02 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307011908.02487.snob@metalinkltd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030701152320.B14262@pauillac.inria.fr>

On Tuesday 01 July 2003 17:23, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > my system relies on an athlon XP2000+ and I would like to take
>
> The native-code OCaml compiler has only one code generator for the
> whole IA32 family.  This code generator is called "i386" for
> historical reasons, but it is not particulary optimized for the Intel
> 386 processor.  Actually, the generated code is targeted for efficient
> execution on the PPro-PII-PIII family, and appears to fit the Athlon
> quite well too.  The next release will include a few P4-specific
> tricks that do not decrease performance on other processors.

What about "cmov" support? This is not P4 specific, this command present for 
extremely long time.

>
> > can anyone help me in optimizing source for athlon ??
>
> No :-)  Quite frankly, given the subset of the IA32 instruction set
> that OCaml generates, I can't see any Athlon-specific optimizations
> that would be worth doing.
>

3DNow, cache control. This are just first thoughts.

Nickolay


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-01 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-01  9:07 Christophe Michel
2003-07-01 13:23 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-07-01 15:08   ` Nickolay Kolchin-Semyonov [this message]
2003-07-01 15:30     ` Michel Christophe

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