Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!eutrc3!wswietse
From: wswietse@eutrc3.UUCP (Wietse Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Optimizer (used to be: nethack on uport sys V)
Message-ID: <232@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 21:07:05 GMT
References: <229@eutrc3.UUCP> <1640@hubcap.UUCP> <400@smegma.UUCP>
Reply-To: wswietse@eutrc3.UUCP (Wietse Venema)
Organization: Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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In article <400@smegma.UUCP> mdg@smegma.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes:
|In article <1640@hubcap.UUCP> mrspock@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Benz) writes:
|>  Has anybody found any redeaming features of the Optomizer on 286
|>Microport?  I haven't.  All I know is that with the optomizer turned
|>on, you get:
|>  1) A good chance of compiler failure.
|
|Just a quick note that down at Microport, we compile the entire kernel
|with the optimizer turned on and don't have any problems. That's not to
|say they don't exist, but we have had good success with the optimizer.

Kernels do not use substantial parts of the compiler; for example, there 
isn't much floating point stuff. Compiling kernels doesn't prove a thing.
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