On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 17:54, Bernd Kunze wrote: > Well, that's why I was curious. 8.0 w/ gcc3 is supposed to generate > better code. > Ot it is just the deskop which is tricking me :-). > > Bernd > Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > >On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:24:10 +0200 > >Bernd Kunze <bkunze@gmx.net> wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I migrated my primary box back to 7.3 and noted a noticeable increase > >>in performance. Is this subjective?? > >>Anyone else done that? > >> > >>Thx., > >>Bernd > >> > > > >That's kind of ironic, because I did a fresh install of Red Hat 8 (I was > >running Red Hat 7.3) and I noticed an increase of performance in a few > >areas, among them, under 7.3, almost every application opened really > >slow (I noticed this before I installed 8.0), but now, apps open up a > >lot quicker :) > > > >Steven P. Ulrick :) > > > > > > > Could be the new kernel. But not the compiler. I benchmarked gcc 3.2 against both the gcc 2.96 in 7.2 and 7.3 and while it came well ahead of the 7.2 edition it had only had an insignificant lead upon the gcc 2.96 from 7.3. However if you have two partitions I suggest you run benchmarks on both. But keep in mind: partitions at the beginning of the disk are faster than partitions at the end, nearly full partitions are faster than half empty partitions and "old" partitions could have become fragmented and this is slow. JFM
