From: Michal Mertl <xmerm05 AT manes DOT vse DOT cz>
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Subject: Re: Watcom vs DJGPP
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 17:03:03 +0100
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On 6 Nov 1997, Bennett Crowell wrote:
> a 486 under DOS and also under Windows 95. The programs involved are
> doing operations on matrices of up to 1000 X 2000 four-byte
> floating point elements. Profiling indicates that most of the time
> is spent in the matrix multiply routine. So far the Watcom product
> seems to generate code that is at least equal to and usually a few
> percent faster than gcc.
Gcc is known not to optimize well fpu instructions, I don't know about pgcc.
Anyone ?

Michal "MiMe" Mertl
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