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Re: Very Fast: Directly Coded Lexical Analyzer
"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:
> 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.
What does a 100% speedup mean then? :-)
Andreas.
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