From:	fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject:	Re: benchmarks
24 Jan 1998 12:37:14 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19980125005225.22177.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
References:	<m0xvW2v-000AK3C AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr>
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To:	root <root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr>
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

On 23-Jan-1998, root <root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr> wrote:
> I thought it would be interesting to see the benchmarks of different compilers
> with all optimizations turned on.

Yes, this is interesting.  But it would be more useful if you also
listed exactly which options you used for each compiler.

> o The relatively bad performance of egcs is surprising.

I have heard that ECGS's treatment of exception handling imposes some costs,
even for C code which doesn't use exceptions.  I think there is an option
to turn it off, which reportedly improves performance significantly.

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