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Re: gcc executables still slower than cc exes on Sun 4?

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:47
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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.

|>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?

gcc 2.x is substantially faster on the Sparc than gcc 1.x.  Get gcc-2.2.2.



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