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From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:23:42AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >25% faster to compile the code, not running it.
> 
> Not to pick on you, Kirill, but rather in general:
> 
> That entirely depends on the optimization level and the configuration.
> I measured a small degradation (<5%) at -O3 on ia64. So, let's find
> out how the 25% compile-time performance improvement was achieved before
> we use it as an argument in any discussion, shall we?

The above statement was just the info from their release notes, so,
of course, additional benchmarks are necessary.

-Kirill