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Subject: Re: gcc 4.10 thinks it is 5x faster than 4.01
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On 27 Mar 2006 15:26:42 -0800 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, "Bob W"
<dontsend AT operamail DOT com> wrote:

>After checking out gcc version 4.10 the first test already
>revealed a flaw:
>
>My test-program reported that it was running about
>5 times as fast as compared to its 4.01 compiled version.
>
>As I don't believe in miracles, I suspect that a bug has
>crawled into the clock() function and/or the CLOCKS_PER_SEC
>definition.
>
>I have further noticed a 6% jitter in the values which
>are returned by clock() after about 5 seconds. But this is
>not necessarily related to the above mentioned problem.
>
>(Console window, Win XP-P)

Did you recompile and rebuild libc with gcc 4.01 and 4.10? 

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