A 7% speed DECREASE??? According to the documentation it should be a 5% increase?
I also see an 8-10% speed decrease in 2.4 (I built) from 2.3.3 (shipped w/Fedora2) in the program I'm writing (best of 3 trials each). Memory use seems to be about the same.
2.4: real 2m44.131s 2.3.3: real 2m29.865s
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