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On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates |
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> > or postulates. :') |
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> No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead |
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> horse. We already know *exactly* what difference it makes - precious |
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> little. |
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> You want a machine that performs better? Stick in a disk drive with more |
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> cache memory. Instant improvement that will dwarf any change you could |
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> ever make with the compiler. Ever wondered why Ubuntu distributes 386 |
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> generic code? Because it makes no discernible difference whatsoever. |
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> But if you wanna go ahead and prove to yourself something that the |
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> toolchain world has know for like forever, then go ahead, don't let me |
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> stop you <shrug> |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Are the numbers posted somewhere I can get to? It'd be good reading. |
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From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride |
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