"Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 31 May 2007 16:59, Kevin Handy wrote:
>
>> Diego Novillo wrote:
>>> We are *always* interested in making GCC faster.  All you need now is a
>>> copyright assignment, the willingness to do the work (or find someone to
>>> do it for you) and the time to implement it.
>>> 
>>> 200% speed gains are nice, especially if they can be replicated outside
>>> the lab. 
>>> 
>> 
>> What does a 200% speedup mean?
>
>   It means you can perform 2x as many operations in the same amount of time,
> i.e. the code is running twice as fast.

What does a 100% speedup mean then? :-)

Andreas.

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