On the Mac, it is not only faster, but much faster, as I
reported
here, esp. for file output (and that's a standard build
without
special optmisations, the one on RC1).

Victor

>
> On Friday 23 December 2005 10:07, jpff@codemist.co.uk
> wrote:
>
> > Preliminary measurements suggest that the 5 system is
> faster than 4 as
>
> This is surprising given that most of the changes (other
> than some parser improvements and optimizations in
> specific opcodes) in the new version actually make the
> code slightly slower while allowing for multiple instances
> , more control over score playback etc. Of course, the
> difference can be in part the result of using a newer C
> compiler or different flags. --
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