Simon Burge wrote: > At least for mips, gcc 4.1.2 builds smaller code than gcc 3.3.3, with a > rough estimate of 10% smaller, and up to 15% in some cases. Here's a > few examples built from the same source tree: As was pointed out privately to me, ignore what I said since the original question didn't even mention gcc 3.3.3 :-) Simon.