3 new mac VMs + pending Mac VM...

Aaron J Reichow reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Tue Oct 10 18:37:06 UTC 2000


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





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