thx very much. I tried it on windows & linux, the clock() cannot be trusted. On 4/21/05, Arturas Moskvinas <arturas.moskvinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do not use clock to determine the speed, better use profiler... > Compile your program with > gcc-3.4 -g0 -march=k8 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time > -fpeel-loops -ftracer -funswitch-loops -mfpmath=sse -pg > > Then run your program, after that make "gprof your_program" look where your > code took a lot of time to execute (it might not be compiler problem). > > Arturas Moskvinas > P.S.: second of all, gcc is not made for super fast code generation, it is > not the main criterea (i think so), it is made to be stable, as much as possible > bug free. And of course it is not very easy to handle so many > microprocessor architectures. VC++ must handle only one architecture > i386, and of course only for one operational system (they have more > time to optimize things for such specific platforms)... >