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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GCC 3.X Ada releases
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Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> writes:

> chris.danx wrote:
> > gcc itself is slower that way back then.  That could be having a knock 
> > on effect on gnat.
> 
> OK. But I guess it is better at optimising?

I got the impression from snooping round the mailing list archives
that the slowdown was related to introducing new support (possibly for
GC within the compiler) rather more then super optimisation.