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Re: [MiNT] MiNT lib 55
On 2000-5-14, Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> > > > > I doubt that you will gain a lot by only giving -m68020-60.
> >
> > Well, Frank's specs transform that into 020-040 plus FPU.
>
> And the implied -m68881 is meaningless for the kernel, see below.
There is a life beyond library and kernel building. It's called
applications.
> > Nope. Only that, after stating so many times that you don't see
> > the point in my using FPU optimization, you and Frank nonetheless
> > ended up hacking to the specs to generate FPU-enabled code when
> > -m68020-60 is used.
>
> And you have been taught countless times that the kernel
> doesn't do any floating point arithmetics.
Spell: A P P L I C A T I O N S.
There have been at least 3 threads where I state that an SSH
binary without FPU is significantly slower.
> Anyway, you shouldn't make such a statement if you don't even
> know the effect of the most common optimizations like
> -fomit-frame-pointer.
If it really was such a common optimization, I would have ran
into it ages ago.
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