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2 May 2024 09:22:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Watcom joined family  
From: Micha Riser
Date: 28 Feb 2003 08:47:16
Message: <3e5f6864@news.povray.org>
Vadim Sytnikov wrote:

> "ABX" <abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote:
>> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>> > It looks interesting but i have some doubts whether these numbers are
>> > representative.  My own tests some time ago showed that the MinGW
> version
>> > is significantly faster than the Borland C++ version.  What were the
>> > optimizations used for GCC?
>>
>> <...>
>> MINGW & DJGPP:
>>   CFLAGS= -march=pentiumpro -O3 -pedantic
>> <...>
> 
> From this list, at least one quite important thing is
> missing: -fomit-frame-pointer. There are a few other things to tweak, but
> the impact of not generating EBP-based stack frames outweighs all the
> rest.

I'm missing the -ffast-math flag which should have quite some impact as 
well.

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