On 31 May 2007 17:30, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> On 31 May 2007 16:59, Kevin Handy wrote:
>> 
>>> Diego Novillo wrote:
>>>> We are *always* interested in making GCC faster.  All you need now is a
>>>> copyright assignment, the willingness to do the work (or find someone to
>>>> do it for you) and the time to implement it.
>>>> 
>>>> 200% speed gains are nice, especially if they can be replicated outside
>>>> the lab. 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What does a 200% speedup mean?
>> 
>>   It means you can perform 3x as many operations in the same amount of
>> time, i.e. the code is running twice as fast on top of its original speed.
> 
> What does a 100% speedup mean then? :-)

   It means you can perform 2x as many operations in the same amount of
time, i.e. the code is running as fast again as its original speed.

  ;-)  What?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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