On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:34:45PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
   
   > [103]cicely21# ./blah 
   > 69.732u 0.129s 1:11.98 97.0%    0+0k 1+1io 0pf+0w
   
   My 100 MHz Krups needs 26 seconds.
   My 300 MHz ultra sparc needs 6.59 s.
   My 400 MHz PII 0.89 s.
   
   So gcc sucks (for sparcs at least), sparcs are dog slow, old Intels get 7.5 x
   the performance at the same clock frequency.

did you use "gcc -mv8"?