Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!lll-winken!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!SUN.COM!lilyc From: lilyc@SUN.COM (Lily Chang) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Xsun Benchmark results Message-ID: <8812222341.AA07503@papageno.sun.com> Date: 22 Dec 88 23:41:12 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 5 Despite of the interesting numbers, here is one suggestion for Phil and others that are into benchmarking 3.X cc vs GCC: A head-to-head apple-to-apple comparison is to benchmark 4.X cc with gcc 1.3X. The reason is simple. Xsun results only vounch for differences between locally opted programs vs globally opted programs.