From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 21 17:29:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FA737B405 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:29:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7551243FA3 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 18290 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2003 01:29:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 22 Feb 2003 01:29:49 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1M1T8hT005690; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:29:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030211020303.GA37644@attbi.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:29:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Craig Rodrigues Subject: Re: GCC 3.2.2 import -- questions Cc: current@freebsd.org, Wesley Morgan Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Feb-2003 Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:44:33PM -0500, Wesley Morgan wrote: >> that are supposedly fixed with 3.2.2... My question is, should I consider >> rebuilding my ports with this new compiler because of stability and/or >> speed improvements? Or is this point release not worth the effort. > > Speed improvements? No. gcc 3.2.2 is definitely slower than gcc 2.95. > There is a lot of arguing on the gcc mailing list right now about this, > but no concrete action to improve the situation yet. Umm, his question was to see if there were bugfixes in the Pentium 4 specific optimizations in the 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 GCC upgrade. Not related to 2.95.x at all. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message