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RE: Very Fast: Directly Coded Lexical Analyzer

On 31 May 2007 16:59, Kevin Handy wrote:

> Diego Novillo wrote:
>> We are *always* interested in making GCC faster.  All you need now is a
>> copyright assignment, the willingness to do the work (or find someone to
>> do it for you) and the time to implement it.
>> 
>> 200% speed gains are nice, especially if they can be replicated outside
>> the lab. 
>> 
> 
> What does a 200% speedup mean?

  It means you can perform 2x as many operations in the same amount of time,
i.e. the code is running twice as fast.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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