When I put KDE 3.0.5 on my 5.0-RC1 box it took just about 20 hours (600mhz with 384MB PC100... backup box ;)) but it runs faster (as compared to KDE on a 4.7-RELEASE). Im willing to give up a bit more comiple time to get better performance out of my apps. =)
-Nick "Harm" Hale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff L. Biffle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:29 AM Subject: Re: 5.0 performance (was: 80386 out of GENERIC) > On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:19 am, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 5:58 AM +0100 12/17/02, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > >Also didn't someone mention that GCC has got slower anyway ? > > > > gcc is slower at compiling things. This is very noticeable when > > you're doing a buildworld. The code which gcc 3.2.1 produces > > does not seem any slower than the code produced by gcc 2.95.4 > > (the version in freebsd-stable). > > Actually, in my benchmarks here, the same code tends to yield much faster > executables under gcc3, particularly in C++. But these are limited > benchmarks (primarily of KDE and my own applications). > I'm willing to trade some time on the compile (which, with any luck, happens > only once) in exchange for speed in the application (which I may use every > day)! :-) > > -Cliff L. Biffle > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
