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Subject: Re: gcc lies?
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 10:59:21 +0200 (MET DST)
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Amancio Hasty writes:
>
> Dumb question , is gcc-1.42 a lot faster than gcc-2.x?

Good question.  The answer is 'yes', at least to go by what I've just
tried.  I compiled cccp.c (the GNU preprocessor) with both compilers
on a P133 with BSD/OS 2.1.  cc (1.42) took about 5.4 seconds, gcc
(2.7.2) took about 14 seconds.

I think Michael's right, though.  It's more a question of
compatibility than anything else.

Greg