egcs 1.0 *faster* than Sun's C compiler!!!!

[Joe Buck]

> Thought you guys might like to see this:

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> Is it typical that gcc optimizes *better* than Sun's C compiler?

In the past, my experience has been that gcc is sometimes faster,
sometimes slower than Sun's compiler, and that at least for 2.7.2.x,
I'd say Sun's was slightly better on average (though it's not hard
to write programs where gcc does better).

Before saying anything definite, we need to have done a rigorous
benchmarking study or the compiler community will simply laugh at us.