>On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, John M McIntosh wrote:
>
>>  >Are these VMs optimized at all?  Does CodeWarrior (or MPW?) allows for any
>>  >general optimization (ala gcc -On) or specific G3 or G4 (AltiVec)
>>  >optimization?
>>
>>  Yes these VM's are optimized for 603 CPUs. I'll consider looking at
>>  the 750 optimization for the next version, but remember lots of
>>  schools have 604 or less machines, goodness even rows of SE/30's. So
>>  some more testing is required to decide which is the best Code
>>  Warrior optimization level *and* target CPU for the general class of
>>  machines that Squeak runs on, testing in Aug showed that some obvious
>>  choices did NOT produce the best results.
>
>I understand that not everyone has a G3 or G4- but is there any way to
>release another build, perhaps optimized for G3 or G4?  It would be
>especially useful for us with G4 if CodeWarrior does any automagic AltiVec
>optimization.
>
>Aaron

Well

1) There is NO! automagic AltiVec optimization... You must handcraft 
either special C constructs or write nifty Assembler...

2) Building a specific 750 version of Squeak doesn't buy much, but 
I'll revisit the question...
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