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It was. The amount of improvement varied by application, but this was testing with real world applications like JPEG libraries, MP3 libraries, compression, etc
by jandrese 4y ago
It was. The amount of improvement varied by application, but this was testing with real world applications like JPEG libraries, MP3 libraries, compression, etc... Of course this was back in the 90s and early 2000s so back in the dinosaur ages by computer standards. Almost certainly using gcc 2.95 on a Pentium 75. It was the only optimization flag that made more than a couple percent difference.