On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Thilo Manske wrote:

: Has anyone ever benchmarked code produced by egcs 1.1.1 pre-release and
: compared the results with gcc 2.7.2.2?
: (Both from the current source tree)
: 
: In general egcs seems to build code that's a little bit slower on my
: i386 (K6-2) than code generated by gcc 2.7.2.2+mycr...

C or C++?  Inlines involved?  What optimization level?

egcs allows for much more performance tuning, as well as includes lots of
C++ support not in gcc 2.7.  It also is more robust in some areas.

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