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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:57:38 -0700
To: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill AT yahoo DOT no>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Tim Prince <tprince AT computer DOT org>
Subject: Re: Need an older gcc version on my cygwin due to poor performance on gcc-3.x series.
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At 07:55 AM 10/29/2004, Ole Jacob Hagen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've compiled Octave-2.1.60 with gcc-3.3.3 successfully, but the 
>performance is pretty bad with gcc-3.3.3.
>
>The performance should of Octave is much better, when compiling it with 
>gcc-3.2.x instead.
>
>The reason might be that the memory allocator on gnu stdc++ has changed to 
>one which is several times slower,
>and therefore gives horrible performance on gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4.
>
>Therefore it would be nice to have gcc-3.2.2-3 to my cygwin.
>
>So where can I find gcc-3.2.2-3 to my cygwin?

If you haven't built and tested the gcc of your choice on cygwin, how do 
you know it performs better?  What does the -3 mean in this context?  Maybe 
you're comparing performance between different platforms, or at least 
different gcc targets.


Tim Prince 


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