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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:36:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: geoff stanbury <geeyoph AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Should a non-programmer use pgcc?
To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com
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Hi, I'm not on the mailing list.  Sorry if this is
frustratingly newbie or anything.

I am not a programmer, but I do prefer to compile programs
from source instead of using precompiled binaries.  (I can
vaguely get the gist of c code in simple programs when I look
at the source.)  

PGCC's website implies that using PGCC instead of GCC would
do me well--I am using an i686 linux system.  I would like to
know how to compare programs compiled with PGCC to those
compiled with GCC, so as to see what kind of improvements I
get.  I'm also wondering whether PGCC is really worth the
trouble for me, considering how I don't know much about
programming, benchmarking, or optimizing code.  Thanks in
advance.  

--Geoff
geeyoff AT zerohour DOT net 

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