Re: different alpha cpu compatibility issues?

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:21:43PM -0600, Hoover, Tony wrote:
>
> Some of the incompatibilities can be over come with PAL code, however
> relying on PAL code to do such things as  Byte/Word manipulations will slow
> the older machines to a crawl if you are doing much.  If you compile for the
> 21064 ( EV4 ) is "safest", however speed improvements could be noticed on
> newer processors if the application was optimized for that core.

Best bet is to compile for EV5; this will run on EV4 or EV45 (no added
instructions when going from EV4 to EV5), but be scheduled better for
EV5, EV56, and EV6.

--Jay++

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