[Ffmpeg-devel] 2.95?

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi M?ns Rullg?rd!

 On 2006.07.13 at 21:29:38 +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote next:

> > Rich Felker wrote:
> >> Yes, gcc devs want to keep us from discovering and using the
> >> infinitely superior gcc 2.95 !! :)
> >
> > Loathe as I am to admit it, you might be onto something here, at least
> > for compilation speed. gcc 2.95 compiles the tree in 15 minutes. 3.4.6
> > takes 21 minutes. ~30 minutes for 4.1.1.
> 
> In theory, the compiler could be spending that extra time optimizing
> the code.  Were that the case, I'd happily trade a little compilation
> time for faster execution.  Sadly, I'm afraid this is not the case
> here.
> 

Haven't you read benchmarks in mplayer-dev list? It IS the case here.
Binary compiled with gcc4 is faster than the one compiled with gcc3,
which is faster than gcc295 binary.

I also noticed speed improvements in mplayer when going from 2.96 to
gcc3 some years ago. Haven't used mplayer in pre-2.96 times (before mid
2002) and noticed no improvement when switching from 3.2->3.3, 3.3->3.4,
3.4->4.0, so can't comment that.

I still have 3.2 and 2.96 installed on my system, so I can do some
benchmarks too if you doubt that..

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Vladimir