Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:56:07 +0000 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Which gcc version? |
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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.
Anton
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