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From: Thilo Bangert <thilo.bangert@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 3 Vs GCC 2 and some other stuff
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:17:20
Message-Id: 20020408171720.64E9A20AADCC@chiba.3jane.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 3 Vs GCC 2 and some other stuff by Bart Verwilst
1 On Monday, 8. April 2002 11:54, you wrote:
2 > Hi
3 >
4 > Euhm...
5 > These benchmarks of spider were compile times? :o)
6 > Damn.. I still don't know wether i will have a faster system with gcc
7 > 3.x than i had with gcc 2.95.x... please tell me:
8 > Is gcc 3.x faster than 2.95 during RUNTIME and execution of the
9 > program?
10
11 the german magazin ix ( http://www.heise.de/ix/ ) did some benchmarks
12 (spec) on gcc 3.0 and gcc 2.95.3 which showed that gcc3.0 was faster -
13 but not by much
14 in some cases (bzip) it was slower!
15
16 but then, i don't remember if they bootstrapped the compiler....
17
18 >
19 > Thanks! :o)
20
21 --
22 regards
23 Thilo