Cygnus Supported GCC vs. EGCS GCC

[Craig Burley]

>I have the following question about the Cygnus Support version of GCC
>and the EGCS version on the Sun "Ultra 1 Model 170".  I compiled and
>ran an optimized version of a program with the following (approximate)
>relative speed performances: 
>
>COMPILER                                    SPEED
>===================================================================
>/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -fast:                 1.0         (baseline)
>FSF-GCC 2.7.2  (-02):                       1.4
>EGCS-GCC 971008 (-mcpu=ultrasparc -O2)      1.4
>
>So it appears that FSF-GCC 2.7.2 and EGCS-GCC 971008 are both about
>40% slower than the Sun compiler when using optimzation.  

If I believed the "SPEED" heading, I'd say it was 40% *faster*.
(That is, a *speed* of 14 mph would be faster, to me, than one
of 10 mph.)

Perhaps you should change your header to say "TIME"?  ;-)

        tq vm, (burley)