To: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu>
Cc: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Info on future enh. to FSF gcc, not djgpp (unoffical providor)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:45:47 PDT
From: Marty Leisner <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>

> >For your information, Aladdin GS has long been released at 3.12 or so
> >(I'm a beta tester so my version is somewhat higher than that, I
> >forget the last public release but I believe it's 3.12).
> 
> Sounds about right...
> 
> >If you can afford to delete GS, it must be that you're only using it
> >personally.  Why not get the most recent version available?
> 
> I seem to recall seeing somewhere that GS 3.12 was significantly slower
> than GS 2.61.
> 
>

I ran some benchmarks...I didn't find this true at all...

There was a posting that was unsubstantiated without any facts...


marty
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