On Apr 11,  2:32pm, der Mouse wrote:
} Subject: Re: Is gcc slow? Or is our gcc slow?
} Conceptually, yes.  But when comparing -pipe versus MFS tempfiles
} there's so much more than just the data transfer being compared; you're
} being hit with context switching among the various pieces and
} particularly with the paging caused thereby.

There is contention for the cache with -pipe as well.

			---  Truck