John M McIntosh wrote:
Yes, I can't recall it was what 50% of the performance of a 3.x compile out of the box, and after *much* tweaking of compiler flags it was mmm just 20% slower.. Well certainly the performance impact was measured in 10 of percent.
So what do you use today? gcc 4? And how does it stack up performance-wise against a Windows VM on the same box? I personally wouldn't mind moving forward but the results in the past were so godawful that I haven't tried in a long time.
Cheers, - Andreas
On 30-Jan-09, at 4:33 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:
John McIntosh and I actually spent some time a few ago compiling VMs on Windows and MacOS with the newest GCCs and ran into a bunch of problems, especially concerning performance. I had to put the work on the back burner for now, but switching to newer compilers will take a bit of extra work at some point.
Michael
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