Hmm.. a frustrating results:

1 tinyBenchmarks

- VM built with gcc-2.95.2

 '178025034 bytecodes/sec; 5308098 sends/sec'
 '174268209 bytecodes/sec; 5502853 sends/sec'

- VM built with latest gcc, available from mingw binaries  gcc 3.4.2
(mingw-special)

'99843993 bytecodes/sec; 4512903 sends/sec'
'101105845 bytecodes/sec; 4512903 sends/sec'

Interesting, that it feels more responsive when built with 3.4.2 :)

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P.S. To ones, who might want try to build Hydra VM. Here the list of
plugins which known to be able to build with:

ADPCMCodecPlugin B3DAcceleratorPlugin B2DPlugin BitBltPlugin
BMPReadWriterPlugin ZipPlugin DropPlugin DSAPrims FFTPlugin FilePlugin
FloatArrayPlugin FloatMathPlugin GeniePlugin HostWindowPlugin
JoystickTabletPlugin JPEGReaderPlugin JPEGReadWriter2Plugin Klatt
LargeIntegers LocalePlugin Matrix2x3Plugin MiscPrimitivePlugin
Mpeg3Plugin RePlugin SecurityPlugin SocketPlugin StarSqueakPlugin
SurfacePlugin UUIDPlugin

- external
SqueakFFIPrims

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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.