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Re: building with gcc/g++ 3.1 ?



On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Wouter Clarie wrote:

> On 14 Jun 2002, Panda wrote:
>
> > I see a lot of posts from people building openbsd and/or ports
> > with gcc-3.1.
> > I wonder if it is worthwhile, is there a performance gain.
> > Well, i guess i wonder about the motivation behind rebuilding with
> > 3.1.
>
> No, it's not really worth the time. Especially not on i386. the compiler
> is heaps slower and the code it produces is much larger. A step backwards,
> if you ask me.

is there any improvement in the performance of the resulting binaries ?