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To: "d-range!" <d-range AT thefridge DOT et DOT fnt DOT hvu DOT nl>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: PCGCC OR GCC (which one is faster)
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:29:03 -0700
Message-ID: <19980512032838.AAJ16211@ppp127.cartsys.com>
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At 09:16  5/11/1998 +0200, d-range! wrote:
>Joseph Sany Kalapurakal wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>         Is PCGCC faster than GCC 2.8. If yes where can I get it from. Any
>> possible bugs ?. Thanks in advance.
>
>That depends. If you're running on a Pentium, PGCC is up to 20% faster (up
>to 50 or 70% on programs with a lot of tight loops in C). For 486 users GCC
>2.8 is definitely faster.

Have you actually tried it? Since PGCC is based on EGCS, which is some
distance ahead of stock GCC, I would expect even its non-Pentium
optimizations to be better.

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com