On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:31 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote:
A mass rebuild would be recommended as the new compiler will produce
faster code. I believe everything will benefit and it's worth looking
into. For example I noticed a significant difference on the OpenSUSE
distro when GCC was upgraded and they repackaged their software with
it in their development version 11.3. Anecdotal for sure but
everything seemed faster than the build before that change. Phoronix
has also done some benchmarks with the Ubuntu distro to determine that
GCC 4.5 produces faster code (in some areas).
"Anecdotal". "Seemed". "In some areas".
This is not a compelling argument.
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