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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 04:11:04 -0600
From:      "Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer" <nickh@supportteam.net>
To:        "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 5.0 performance (was: 80386 out of GENERIC)
Message-ID:  <005901c2a5b4$9c597580$0401a8c0@nh2>
References:  <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021217045802.GG81755@raggedclown.net> <p05200f4cba247fb7c513@[128.113.24.47]> <200212170029.29517.cbiffle@safety.net>

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When I put KDE 3.0.5 on my 5.0-RC1 box it took just about 20 hours (600mhz
with 384MB PC100... backup box ;)) but it runs faster (as compared to KDE on
a 4.7-RELEASE).  Im willing to give up a bit more comiple time to get better
performance out of my apps. =)

-Nick "Harm" Hale


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net>
To: <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: 5.0 performance (was: 80386 out of GENERIC)


> On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:19 am, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 5:58 AM +0100 12/17/02, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> > >Also didn't someone mention that GCC has got slower anyway ?
> >
> > gcc is slower at compiling things.  This is very noticeable when
> > you're doing a buildworld.  The code which gcc 3.2.1 produces
> > does not seem any slower than the code produced by gcc 2.95.4
> > (the version in freebsd-stable).
>
> Actually, in my benchmarks here, the same code tends to yield much faster
> executables under gcc3, particularly in C++.  But these are limited
> benchmarks (primarily of KDE and my own applications).
> I'm willing to trade some time on the compile (which, with any luck,
happens
> only once) in exchange for speed in the application (which I may use every
> day)! :-)
>
> -Cliff L. Biffle
>
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