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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
Date: 5 Oct 93 17:46:50
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu's message of Tue, 5 Oct 1993 21:59:19 GMT
In article <MARK_WEAVER.93Oct5175919@excelsior.cis.brown.edu> Mark_Weaver@brown.edu writes:
>You you were running gcc version 1 (the default that comes with
>386bsd 0.1) then that explains it. gcc2 has a significantly better
>optimizer that could easily explain this kind of speed difference.
geez, considering that 386bsd beat linux by a large percentage
with a *poorer* optimizer, i'm not sure i want to think about
with an equivalent optimizer... *chuckle*
chris
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chris g. demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
smarter than your average clam.