Re: gcc 3.2 not faster

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 06:10:42PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> I wonder what will happen when libc6 is compiled with GCC 3.2...  For 
> getc/putc operations what happens in the libc6 is more complex than what 
> happens in the application.  If the same performance hit occurs when 
> compiling libc6 then things will really suck, and I'll probably get CC'd on 
> some more amusing flame-wars.

Well, it looks like block io actually sped up according to your
benchmark. I'd hope that performance sensitive code isn't really
doing io a byte at a time...

Mike Stone