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Re: [Patch] Nathan's improvements to basic_string


Nathan Myers wrote:
...
Numerics people I talk to, by the way, say that each C compiler
release since 2.7 has generated slower code than the last, and they're starting to get very testy about it.

That's been our general experience as well (although it's not necessarily specific to floating point computations). See my post comparing the performance of 2.95.2 vs 3.2 on SPARC here http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2002-12/msg01432.html. IIRC, we saw a similar regression on i86.

Regards
Martin


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