On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:20, Steven Yi wrote:

> On a side note, I just upgraded to Fedora Core 5 last night and today
> I recompiled Csound5 with gcc 4.1.  I had read that in 4.1 that gcc is
> now starting to take advantage of the tree-ssa stuff they did for 4.0
> to do some code optimization when compiling.  I did a render of one of
> the parts from my Etude and it *seemed* to have rendered more quickly.
>  i didn't take a metric though so can't say for sure if that is the
> case.  Has anyone done some testing with Csound compiled with 3.x,
> 4.0, and 4.1 and have some metrics on performance?  (Just curious to
> know if I'm imagining things or not =) ).

The last time I compared these compilers, 4.0 was obviously worse than
3.x (generates both larger and slower code); 4.1 is better than 4.0, but
still not as good as 3.x. I did the test with an old beta version of 4.1,
so it may not be relevant now.


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