From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 17 2:13:17 2002 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 D82BD37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 02:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from noir.propagation.net (noir.propagation.net [63.249.159.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042D543EB2 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 02:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nickh@supportteam.net) Received: from nh2 (c68.113.207.179.ftwrth.tx.charter.com [68.113.207.179]) by noir.propagation.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA17072; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 04:12:57 -0600 Message-ID: <005901c2a5b4$9c597580$0401a8c0@nh2> From: "Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer" To: "Cliff L. Biffle" , References: <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021217045802.GG81755@raggedclown.net> <200212170029.29517.cbiffle@safety.net> Subject: Re: 5.0 performance (was: 80386 out of GENERIC) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 04:11:04 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3663.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3663.0 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 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" To: 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message