>>>>> "MK" == Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MK> Here are the results after building gcc 4.1.2 (repeating results MK> for gcc 3.4.6 for comparison). I suspect that performance is MK> probably impacted because gcc 4.1.2 (and also the rest of the MK> tool-chain) is built with gcc 3.4.6 - but it certainly suggests MK> that the newer gcc versions don't like the slice-8 algorithm for MK> some reason. They don't seem to like the old CRC algorithms either. It is quite strange, such dramatic performance regressions from 3.x to 4.x are rare. /Benny ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster