On 21-Jul-05, at 11:20 PM, Sachin Desai wrote:

> Thanks Tim. I downloaded VMMaker and followed John's instructions  
> from an earlier mail and I was able to successfully build a working  
> VM for Mac OSX.
>
> I built the VM using both gcc3.3 and gcc4.0. The one built with  
> gcc3.3 did not perform as well as the 3.7.5Beta3 that I've been  
> using for Croquet, the frame rates were about half that of the  
> 3.7.5 VM and it took a long time for the AnnotationMorph to appear.  
> The one built with gcc4.0 is as fast and seems to be working well.
>
> Thanks very much to the both of you for your help.
>
> -- Sachin.

Did you run the gunify step? If not you will get lousy performance.

GCC 4.0 in my testing produces slower code than 3.3 after you gunify  
things.

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