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Bernd Machenschalk
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RE: Another thing to look

25 Apr 2006 12:12:10 UTC
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    Another thing to look at, just released by Sun is their own SPARC optimizing backend for GCC. It uses the GCC ABI, so it should work with other GCC-built apps (i.e. boinc).
    http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/index.html


    Thanks, this looks incredibly useful. However, this is only available for Solaris 9 and up.

    I'm currently trying to compile the vector-code that's e.g. in the current Linux Beta Test App into a Solaris App that uses the VIS extension. However I have to use Suns linker and assembler, which forces me to compile _everything_ (all code and libraries used) in 64 Bit in order to properly link it together. Has anyone built a full 64-bit-enabled gcc (4.0.1 or newer) on Solaris 7?

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    Bernd Machenschalk
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    A new App for Solaris SPARC

    13 Jun 2006 12:44:45 UTC
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      A new App for Solaris SPARC is available. See this thread.

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      Bernd Machenschalk
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      RE: I expect some speedup

      26 Jun 2006 9:14:32 UTC
      Message 2692 in response to message 2689
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        I expect some speedup once I get the autovect feature of GCC 4 to recognize our loops as vectorizable and use vis, but this may take some time.


        Hm. I just found out that VIS is integer only. Doesn't help for our purposes at all. Bad luck.

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