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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:48:41 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable?
Message-ID:  <20000110204841.B98651@relay.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000110234640.A98425@evil.2y.net>
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:46:40PM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote:
> > Yes, but I have yet to have *anyone* post any numbers that show that
> > using `pgcc' made their system "faster".
> 
> Some other guy just put up a link to his page showing performance gain
> of about 25% using gcc-2.95 vs gcc-2.7. 

If you mean the gzip/bzip2 test, yes I will agree for some things it
makes sense.  HOWEVER, this topic started off as about building the
FreeBSD world and kernel with a different compiler.

 
> The only thing I was pointing out was that the sources were not fully
> compatible with gcc-2.95. I understand that, and was simply following
> up to another post here.

Since the 4.0 sources are buildable with Gcc 2.95, it shouldn't take too
much time for someone that cared to come up with a patchset to allow 3.4
to be compiled with Gcc 2.95.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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