]> > my system relies on an athlon XP2000+ and I would like to take > advantage of this architecture for speed purposes. > > but at configure times, the logs seem to be a little erratic: > > [root@msi ocaml]# ./configure -with-pthread > Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnu ... > > # ok, that's what I want... > (...) > > Configuration for the native-code compiler: > hardware architecture..... i386 > OS variant................ linux_elf > C compiler used........... gcc > options for compiling..... -Wall -Wno-unused > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REENTRANT > > # so why now i386 The native-code OCaml compiler has only one code generator for the whole IA32 family. This code generator is called "i386" for historical reasons, but it is not particulary optimized for the Intel 386 processor. Actually, the generated code is targeted for efficient execution on the PPro-PII-PIII family, and appears to fit the Athlon quite well too. The next release will include a few P4-specific tricks that do not decrease performance on other processors. > can anyone help me in optimizing source for athlon ?? No :-) Quite frankly, given the subset of the IA32 instruction set that OCaml generates, I can't see any Athlon-specific optimizations that would be worth doing. - Xavier Leroy ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners