I did time it. Openoffice.org compiles with at least 10% less time than in gcc4.0 My Firefox nightly 2.0cvs builds compile in 30% less time than in gcc4.0
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 20:38 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > > [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=450504 > > It compiles faster than 4.0, so yes, gentoo people like it, it could > save them one hour on a nice OpenOffice.org compile ;) > > When it comes to runtime, it's not much faster or better than 4.0, I > think it's just about the same. The only package I've seen getting > better performance out of gcc 4.1 is powerdns-recursor, but that's > because the author of that software is working on GCC and knows exactly > how to use new speed optimizations with gcc 4.1. He uses special > compiler features when available to speedup the recursor by quite a few > percents (over 20% for a piece of software that does only do DNS lookups > and caching the results). > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- Regards, Hussam Al-Tayeb
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