Stepanov results with development gcc

[Bruce Korb]

Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> Daniel Berlin writes:
> > Yes.
> > In fact, on a gnupro 99r1 based branch compiler (BeOS) on x86, which is the
> > same time frame, we have better than perfect.
> > It's like .7 or .8.
> 
> No, any report with a value < 1 is IMPERFECT, and large deviations
> from 1 indicate a bug.

By implication, that also means that 1.0 *may* be a bug:
the level zero being misoptimized and hiding the abstraction
penalty  :-).

Maybe level zero should be done by hand in assembler?  :-}