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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:55:18 -0800
From: "Alan M. Doerhoefer" <aland AT seanet DOT com>
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To: allegro AT canvaslink DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: binutils 2.8.1 performance = slow
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Forgive me if this has been noticed before, but I thought
I would share the fact that at least in my case, 
using binutils 2.8.1 instead of 2.7 caused a remarkable
slowing of my program. I was reinstalling DJGPP and the 
Allegro 3.0 beta, so I re-made my fractal program and found
that it now took 2.5 seconds to render a Mandelbrot set, whereas
before I reinstalled DJGPP my program only took 1.8 seconds.
The source code, makefile, and optimizations were completely 
unchanged. At first, I thought it might be because I was tyring
out the latest Win95, or that perhaps something relevant to my program
had changed between the Nov16 WIP and the  Allegro 3.0 beta code, 
but I tried reinstalling DJGPP with the older binutils 2.7 first, 
and now my program is back up to it's original speed. 

Has anyone else experienced this with bnu281?

Alan M. Doerhoefer
aland AT seanet DOT com