On 11:27 Fri 01 Sep , Simon Stelling wrote: > Ronan Klyne wrote: > > A more general form of the question: does 4.1.1 on amd64 produce faster > > binaries, or produce binaries faster? > > It produces equally fast binaries slower, or at least that's what I once > picked up. I didn't do any benchmarking however. > 4.1.1 is probablt the first gcc release with proper support for amd64. so you can expect some performance improvements. previous versions (even 4.0.x ones) are said to have preliminary 64bit support, that works, but doesn't take full advantage of new architecture.
i found gcc4 in general to compile stuff a bit faster than gcc3 line on 32bit systems. can't say much about amd64, since i only used gcc4 with it. -- [email protected] mailing list
