[plug] Gentoo vs [insert ur fav distro here]

[William Kenworthy]

Actually, I think the speed is compile time: gcc3.x takes a lot longer
to compile, but produces generally smaller and faster binaries - could
that be what you mean?

BillK

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 11:21, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Note: gcc 3.2.x == slow (not sure if this applies to your architecture,
> > but unless gcc 3.3 has some magic revisions, I expect it will also be
> > generally slow).
> 
> I've found g++ 3.2.x to be very slow indeed, but haven't noticed such a 
> marked slowdown in the main gcc between 2.9.5 and 3.x .
> 
> On the other hand, gcc 3.x is generally thought to produce faster 
> executables, especially on newer platforms where it allows the use of 
> more specific -mcpu and -march flags.
> 
> Craig Ringer
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