Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 10:59:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: gcc lies? Message-ID: <199607070859.KAA15494@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199607070830.BAA00607@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jul 7, 96 01:30:51 am
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Amancio Hasty writes: > > Dumb question , is gcc-1.42 a lot faster than gcc-2.x? Good question. The answer is 'yes', at least to go by what I've just tried. I compiled cccp.c (the GNU preprocessor) with both compilers on a P133 with BSD/OS 2.1. cc (1.42) took about 5.4 seconds, gcc (2.7.2) took about 14 seconds. I think Michael's right, though. It's more a question of compatibility than anything else. Greg
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