On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:49:45AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote: > "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > ssh2 and libssl and whatever is needed for that would benefit _a lot_ from > > some 060 improvements. ssh2 is basically unusable on 060 boxes, it takes > > minutes to connect... didn't one of the Richard's play with that some time > > ago? > > I forget who it was, it might have been about sparc though, where the > v8 code was/is a lot faster than the default v7.
v7, v8? Thats for ssh2? > Incidentally, if anyone wants to write some good, fast, well-tested > asm code for gmp on 68060 it'd be gratefully received. It's a bit > hard to get too excited about old chips that are always going to be > quite slow, but if someone's got one and wants to improve things for > it then there's every chance some simple stuff could be an > improvement. I don't think many people still write asm, especially not for 68060... But I heard the gcc compiler produced pretty good code, if you just give it the right options. > I guess as a minimum the gmp configs ought to select the 68000 code in > preference to the 68020 when building for 060. I didn't follow this too closely, but I think the reasoning was you use -m68020-060 to build code that is "optimized" for all chips, ie uses no instructions that need to be emulated. The drawback is, that it slows down 020-040 quite a bit. That's why Richard suggested one deb optimized for 020-040, which runs pretty fast on all those chips, and one for 060, which should be way faster than the one-for-all version. But I'd prefer if somebody who knows about this, ie Richard, explains it again. AFAIK this has never been done on m68k yet. Christian
