Re: gcc-2.95.3 vs gcc-3.0.4

Ian Castle (ian.castle@coldcomfortfarm.net)
25 Feb 2002 09:32:48 +0000


On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 08:32, David Rees wrote:
> Well, that's true if you spend most of your time waiting for the compiler to
> run, but when it takes longer to compile AND runs slower
> (http://www.cs.utk.edu/~rwhaley/ATLAS/gcc30.html) you lose on both counts!
>

Doesn't this refer to floating point, and in particular, floating point
on the Athlon. So there other problems with gcc 3.x that relate to the
kernel?

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