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Re: [4.4] Strange performance regression?
- From: Mark Tall <mtall dot qld at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: francesco biscani <bluescarni at gmail dot com>, Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at embecosm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:20:42 +1000
- Subject: Re: [4.4] Strange performance regression?
Joern Rennecke wrote:
> But at any rate, the subject does not agree with
> the content of the original post. When we talk
> about a 'regression' in a particular gcc version,
> we generally mean that this version is in some
> way worse than a previous version of gcc.
Didn't the original poster indicate that gcc 4.3 was faster than 4.4 ?
In my book that is a regression.
According to my reading Francesco's message, the problem is "strange
behaviour with GCC 4.4.1", after which he then states that "the same
problem is not (...) with GCC 4.3.3".