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From: Wesley Horner <wesman@nucflash.com>
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On Wed Aug 06 at 11:44:26 PM, David O'Brien wrote:

> It has been argued by Richard Henderson (urber GCC hacker) that 3.3 is no
> slower than 3.2.  I'm now thinking that this is a cache-size issue.  I
> wonder if GCC is blowing out my tiny 256KB cache.

Not likely.  I got almost an itenticle slowdown on a duel e250.  I know
the cus in that have at least 2 megs of cache each.  It is just slow.

Wes

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