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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:35:19 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh
Message-ID:  <200311261335.19962.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20031126025505.GB56876@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <16322.26365.159173.946033@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200311251507.55403.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20031126025505.GB56876@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Wednesday 26 November 2003 13:25, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:07:55PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > What about the newer version of gcc? That is considerably slower than
> > previous versions, but I don't see people screaming to have it removed.
>
> Uh... you must not know what you are talking about.  GCC *COMPILES*
> slower as it does a better job of optimizing (which adds time to the
> compiling time).  The produced optimzied binaries have quicker
> *RUN-TIME*s.

I'm talking about compile time.

> Why would any one want to call for a compiler to be removed that produces
> faster binaries??

Ahh, why indeed..

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