Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:42:19 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Speed of DJGPP?
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:

> Although, I presume DJGPP makes faster code than BC!?

For the cases where 32-bit protected mode and flat address space makes 
code simpler, DJGPP indeed produces faster code than BC.

> Although, it produces
> about the same code as Watcom from what I have understood, so the question
> is, why does it have to be slower?

One reason is that GCC is a portable compiler whereas Watcom is hand-tuned
to the x86 architecture.  The other reason is that GCC is multi-pass 
compiler (i.e., it invokes several passes in different programs), which 
slows it down somewhat.

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