From: buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: inefficiency of GCC output code & -O problem
Date: 18 Apr 2000 06:31:09 GMT
Lines: 13
Message-ID: <8dh0tn.3vvqu6v.0@buerssner-17104.user.cis.dfn.de>
References: <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 10 DOT 10004180455310 DOT 1540-100000 AT darkstar DOT grendel DOT net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pec-104-133.tnt5.s2.uunet.de (149.225.104.133)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 956039469 8119095 149.225.104.133 (16 [17104])
X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/1.3.13.0
User-Agent: Xnews/03.02.04
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

>It once again proved that a good optimising compiler can do a excellent
>job...also the wisdom of running a profiler and seing which routines take
>up most time...

I can say one thing in the defense of Alexei. I don't know, whether
he used the profiler, or not. But there is profiling code in his 
sources. I did a very quick profile of his code. IHMO, he correctly
identified the bottlenecks.

-- 
Regards, Dieter