Jean Francois Martinez wrote: >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 > > > > Well, partitioning and all that were the same. I made a cross-check with a 2nd, quite similiar system and it appears that without X 8.0 is quicker to launch i.e. emacs. With X however 7.3 is quicker. Increased GUI overhead in 8.0? Bernd
