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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:16:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        never@nevermind.kiev.ua
Subject:   Re: cvsup in 4.5-RC2
Message-ID:  <200201242116.g0OLGls98942@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020124191928.GB91812@nevermind.kiev.ua>
References:  <200201221958.g0MJwAF27289@dior.ics.muni.cz> <200201222001.g0MK1Px95581@vashon.polstra.com> <20020124191928.GB91812@nevermind.kiev.ua>

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In article <20020124191928.GB91812@nevermind.kiev.ua>,
Nevermind  <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> wrote:
> > Try building it yourself.  The build goes _much_ faster than before.
> > CVSup now depends on a new distribution of Modula-3 which is smaller
> > and builds faster.  There's no reason to fear this port any more.
> Does this apply to execution speed?

The Modula-3 compiler is possibly faster by a very small amount.
Programs compiled with it, such as CVSup, are probably about 10%
faster in terms of CPU time.  That's because the Modula-3 libraries
are no longer built with position-independent code.

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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