Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:21:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: Gyorgy Abonyi <loop AT hu DOT bonus DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Speed of DJGPP?
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Gyorgy Abonyi wrote:
> > Win95), DJGPP usually spends equal time in CPP and AS than in CC1,
> 
> > And if You can access a U..ix version of gcc, than You can check that the
> > -pipe option speeds up really the compilation.
> 
> Did you actually check this?  I did, and on many workstations there is no 
> visible difference.  The reason, again, is that Unix has a well-tuned 
> disk cache.

Try -pipe on an SMP box and watch things fly especially if there are 4 or 
more CPUs!

Art S. Kagel, kagel AT bloomberg DOT com