[MPlayer-dev-eng] gcc 3

Falk Hueffner falk.hueffner at student.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Jan 30 19:13:53 CET 2002


Felix Buenemann <atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> On Tuesday, 29. January 2002 01:53, Arpi wrote:
> > > Just compiled gcc 3.0.3 and made a few tests:
> >
> > anyway, i started this whole mess to check if mplayer cleanly compiles
> > with gcc 3. many users said nowdays that gcc 3 support is broken...
> > but it works, mplayer compiled with gcc3.0.3 without any errors.
> >
> yes, I compile with gcc 3.0.1 from time to time, generated code is a bit 
> slower then gcc 2.95.3 code, but it works flawlessly.

In case anybody cares, here's a small benchmark for Alpha:

gcc 2.95.4	40.847s 39.578s 39.197s
gcc 3.0.3       42.536s 42.819s 42.817s
CVS gcc		37.315s 37.466s 36.518s

Of course this may be different for i386, but for Alpha the upcoming
gcc 3.1 will be definitely better.

        Falk



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