Re: Game announcements on LGDC

[Joseph Kain <jkain@scudc.scu.edu>]

Anni Hienola wrote:

> It is? Haven't used it. It anyway beats gcc and egcs with Pentium processors
> according to a comparisson I found in the net
>
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/compila.html
>
> It looks convincing but the author himself warns, that these are just numbers...
> Funny thing in the test was the way -O affected gcc. The performance almost
> doubles.

Doubled performance seems pretty reasonable since the compiler makes no attempt at
all to improve things without the -O option.  I have an old alpha machine here
running linux and the difference between optimized code and unoptimized code is
about 5-6 times.

Joseph Kain