From:	kroe AT sbcs DOT sunysb DOT edu (KiYun Roe)
Date:	Tue, 4 Feb 92 21:31:05 EST
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Bootstrapping djgpp
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Status:	O

> ... and the compiler
> was reconfigured to produce a.out format and recompiled with -O.

That's too bad. :-)  My experience is that -O will often generate
slower code.  Either the GNU compiler has a hard time dealing with the
386/486 architecture (the small number of registers perhaps) or the
machine-dependent description of the 386/486 hasn't been done carefully
enough.

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