gcc 3.2 not faster

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

I thought that gcc 3.2 was supposed to be faster, however I have just done 
some benchmarks to show the opposite:

GCC 2.95:
Version 1.93b          write   read putcNT getcNT   putc   getc  putcU  getcU
lyta                     437    559   9052   9478   1694   1734  24757  48029

GCC 3.2:
Version 1.93b          write   read putcNT getcNT   putc   getc  putcU  getcU
                         441    568   7955   8573   1617   1698  18731  28544

putcU/getcU is putc_unlocked() and getc_unlocked().

putcNT/getcNT is putc() and getc() in a program that's linked without thread 
support.

When linked with thread support putc/getc do extra locking which gives about 
the same speed on both compilers.

The source to this is in http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/experimental/

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