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  Re: Watcom joined family  
From: Vadim Sytnikov
Date: 28 Feb 2003 12:01:13
"ABX" <abx [at] abxartpl> wrote:
> Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann [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.


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