From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Wilhelm B. Kloke" Message-ID: References: <20020226150031.A2A4B19A1C@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] p9/linux/fbsd compiler shootout Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:02:05 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5666f200-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In article <20020226150031.A2A4B19A1C@mail.cse.psu.edu>, andrey mirtchovski <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote: >> The compile time using for the BSD/2.95/no test looks *really* low; >> are we sure about that number? It's a very strange outlier, isn't it? >> I'll mostly ignore that one, because it is *such* a surprise; GCC >> isn't normally thought to be that fast, but hey, maybe it really is. >> > >several more tests yield exactly the same results -- FBSD 4.5 w/ >gcc2.95 takes about 18 seconds to compile. Surprise diminishes, when you take the difference between gcc2.95 and 2.96 into account (linux was tested with the latter). 2.96 is 3.00-beta (in fact, 2.96 was never recommended for use and made it into some Linux distributions only accidentally.) -- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257