[MiNT] SV: Some mintlib patches

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

> From: Frank Naumann [fnaumann@boerde.de]
> Sent: 2008-02-27 14:43:53 CET
> 
> And, please don't get me wrong. I'm not against special optimized 
> software. But it must have a noticeable effect. Otherwise you spent lot of 
> time for nothing. So optimizing the handful of tools there it make sense 
> is enough.

I tend to agree with Frank, optimizing the compiled code for 060 in particular has little affect. These computers are (in Atari terms) already quite fast.

I'd rather see some size optimizing of the compiled binaries. gcc tends to generate large binaries. This - combined with the slow speed and resource hogging of the compiler itself - keeps me from using gcc and still use PureC.

Jo Even