Re: gcc 3.2 not faster

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:38:04PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> 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

It's helpful when posting benchmarks to give some indication of what the
numbers represent. Is it operations per time? Or elapsed seconds? Or
bogomips?

Mike Stone