compiler performance

[Robert Dewar]

Danny Angelo wrote:

> Hi, anybody at GCC can study and say anything about this article?
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3

We often find that in situations like this, people just use default
options out of the box, and since -O0 is the default and pretty
horrible, and many other compilers optimize by default, gcc is
often at a disadvantage in such naive benchmarking.