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From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 12:57:45 GMT
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Mark_Weaver@brown.edu writes:

>In article <2CB12A8D.17397@news.service.uci.edu> jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) writes:
>> These are two different dhrystone benchmarks, and a dhampstone
>> benchmark which I compiled both under gcc (without optimization) on
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>You you were running gcc version 1 (the default that comes with
>386bsd 0.1) then that explains it.  gcc2 has a significantly better
>optimizer that could easily explain this kind of speed difference.
 ^^^^^^^^

Something is striking me odd here.....

Bernie
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