From: Conn Clark <clark@esteem•com>
To: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin•de>
Cc: May Ling List <linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: gcc-3.2 and MPC8xx
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:08:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E3567A3.5010600@esteem.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E34F6A0.2040209@imc-berlin.de
Steven Scholz wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I read that MontaVista released a 3.0 with gcc 3.2.
>
> Does it make sense to switch from 2.95.3/4 to gcc 3.2 for MPC8xx PowerPC?
>
> Are there any big advantages when building u-boot, kernel, drivers,
> busybox and
> multithreaded applications?
>
> Thanks a million,
>
> Steven
>
>
>
>
>
I don't know about using gcc 3.2 on PPC but on X86 its wonderful. 3.2.X
(mabey even 3.1.x) has two features called profile-arcs and
branch-probabilities that can boost speed quite a bit. Read the gcc man
page on how to use these options.
Good Luck
Conn
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2003-01-27 9:06 gcc-3.2 and MPC8xx Steven Scholz
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