Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Which gcc version? | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 20:28:49 +0100 |
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On November 23, 2001 07:56 pm, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > At 18:30 23/11/01, Daniel Phillips wrote: > >On November 23, 2001 02:59 pm, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > At 13:51 23/11/01, war wrote: > > > >You should use gcc-2.95.3. > > > > > > That's not true. gcc-2.96 as provided with RedHat 7.2 is perfectly fine. > > > > > > gcc-3x OTOH is not a good idea at the moment. > > > >Do you have any particular reason for saying that? > > I haven't done any measurements myself but from what I have read, gcc-3.x > produces significantly slower code than gcc-2.96. I know I should try > myself some time... but if that is indeed true that is a very good reason > to stick with gcc-2.96.
If it does I certainly haven't noticed it. I think we managed to get 2.4 running slower than 2.2 for a while, and we all ran those kernels anyway, whether we had to or not, right?
If there is a performance hit, it's not enough to worry about.
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