david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (04/20/89)
In article <1496@cod.NOSC.MIL<, wbm@cod.NOSC.MIL (William B. Morrison) writes: < In article <1492@cod.NOSC.MIL>, wbm@cod.NOSC.MIL (William B. Morrison) writes: < > < > The concensus of the Comp.windows.x newsgroup appears to be gcc 1.34 as < > the optional compiler of choice. Has anyone tried 1.35 or 1.36? < > Are any benchmarks with these versions available? < < That should have read "1.32 or 1.33". Sorry for the confusion (I don't < think the FSF wants me to pre-release their software early either ;-). < < Ten minutes ahead of my time, < --Bill Morrison < wbm@nosc.mil The current release of gcc is 1.34.2, which started shipping this week. I haven't tested benchmarks with X; but someone else here ran gcc 1.27 through some standard benchmarks on a couple of machines and found a 15-20% increase in speed over programs compiled with the standard C compiler. (Sorry to post; mail to you bounced.) -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu