Re: The Kommunity vs. Dick Johnson

Johnny Tevessen (j.tevessen@gmx.net)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:03:09 +0100


Quoting Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com):

> but I hope that this result reminds people that:
>
> - this benchmark is bad bad bad, and IMHO has NO value at all
>
> - hand-crafted assembly code isn't always "better" just because its
> assembly

- the kernel is compiled using gcc-2.7.2.1 -O2 -fofp and nothing else.

Nice to see that kernel code could be that faster just by using
different compilers/switches, though.

war > /dev/null

ciao,
johnny

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