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Re: (off-topic) future of non-Wintel,etc.

Date1998-03-28 17:34
FromJean Piche
SubjectRe: (off-topic) future of non-Wintel,etc.
Micheal Allen Thompson wrote:
> 
> Speaking of 64-bit.... has anybody got csound to compile under the SGI
> IDO (MipsPro 7.1 or 7.2)? IRIX has 3 configurations: -o32 (old 32-bit)
> -n32(new 32-bit) -n64(the 64-bit). I have the compiler at school (7.1)
> with -n32 but do to disk space I could not install the 64 bit stuff
> although I can run 64 bit binaries....

Doug Cook at SGI has/had a MIT version compiled on an r10k I believe that was
done with the 64 bit flags, but i seem to rememeber that the performance gains
were modest with both the -n32  and the -n64 libs. Something to do with the way
csound handles floats...

> IRIX is 64-bit starting with 6.2.... I think the chip needs to be R4400 or
> higher.... not sure on that.....

r4k and up I believe.

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Universite de Montreal
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