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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Peter Mutsaers <plm@simplex.nl>
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Subject: Re: make world with gcc version 2.7.2 or pgcc 2.7.2.9?
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>   NW> 'probably bogus' and faster code.  Since there are known bugs,
>   NW> given a system the size of FreeBSD the possibility of the bug
>   NW> being tickled *somewhere* is high.  And, given that the speedups
>   NW> for stock gcc aren't stupendous (unlike pgcc which can be quite
>   NW> high, but the code generation is suspect in many cases) it's not
>   NW> worth it.
> 
> Hmm. Do the pentium patches introduce new bugs?

Definitely.