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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:29:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
Subject:   Re: GCC 3.2.2 import -- questions
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030221202952.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030211020303.GA37644@attbi.com>

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On 11-Feb-2003 Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:44:33PM -0500, Wesley Morgan wrote:
>> that are supposedly fixed with 3.2.2... My question is, should I consider
>> rebuilding my ports with this new compiler because of stability and/or
>> speed improvements? Or is this point release not worth the effort.
> 
> Speed improvements?  No.  gcc 3.2.2 is definitely slower than gcc 2.95.
> There is a lot of arguing on the gcc mailing list right now about this,
> but no concrete action to improve the situation yet.

Umm, his question was to see if there were bugfixes in the Pentium 4
specific optimizations in the 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 GCC upgrade.  Not related
to 2.95.x at all.

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