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Date:      Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:22:16 +0100
From:      Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?
Message-ID:  <49671748.3030709@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <49668763.8020705@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <49668763.8020705@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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O. Hartmann schrieb:
> When will gcc 4.3 incorporated in FreeBSD 8 and become the standard
> compiler suite? We figured out that gcc 4.3 does have a speed gain in
> some numerical code of 3 - 8 % and I guess we can use this in the basic
> OS as well ...

Number crunching has a totally different execution profile than basic 
operating system services. Gains in one area cannot simply be 
transferred to the other.



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