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- From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
- Subject: Re: gcc executables still slower than cc exes on Sun 4?
- Date: 31 Aug 1992 19:47:53 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley
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- In article <RFINCH.92Aug28112533@venice.water.ca.gov|> rfinch@water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) writes:
- |>I remember 2-3 years ago that programs compiled with gcc on Sun 4
- |>(Sparc) machines ran slower than programs compiled with cc. At that
- |>time I made a simple test with gawk, and found that indeed it was
- |>slower with gcc, so gave up using gcc.
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- |>Just now I tried gcc v. 1.40 and it seems that gawk and mawk are still
- |>slower with gcc than cc. Will that be true of most c programs?
- |>Anything in the works to make gcc executables faster?
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- gcc 2.x is substantially faster on the Sparc than gcc 1.x. Get gcc-2.2.2.
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