On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:03:40 +0100, "Alessandro Coppo"
<a.c### [at] iolit> wrote:

>Where did you manage to get gcc 2.72 ? Next to a T.Rex skeleton in a
>paleonthology museum? I have nothing but 2.95.x on my Linux CDs (got in the
>last 12 months). If you want to hurt yourself, you can even get 2.96 from
>RedHat 7! In my experience, 2.95.2 if MUCH better than MSVC6 SP3 w.r.t.
>language conformance (not in optimization, sadly there MS still rules).

Maybe it does for Intel platforms. On a K6III, gcc with -O9 does a
much better job than MSVC 6 in terms of speed.

Admittedly, the program used for speed comparisons was a mem hog (ate
up about 150 megs, granted -- without any swapping as I have 192 RAM)
and the speed increase might be due to the better memory management in
Linux. Still, 5-10% is quite good.


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