GCC 3.3 on power pc gives best figures as compared to 3.1, 2.95 or 4.01
however since this is intel your milage will vary,

Also setting -mtune=  -march=   optimizes/de-optimizes decisions too.

On Apr 11, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> GCC 3.x should be in the same ballpark as 2.95.
>
> I have not found this to be true. I tried multiple times (gcc 3.1,  
> 3.3 and 3.4) and each time the resulting VM was *significantly*  
> slower than 2.95.2.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas

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