Need an older gcc version on my cygwin due to poor performance on gcc-3.x series.

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Danny Smith wrote:

> Gerrit wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ole Jacob Hagen wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've compiled Octave-2.1.60 with gcc-3.3.3 successfully, but the
>>>performance is pretty bad with gcc-3.3.3. 
>>>The performance should of Octave is much better, when compiling it
>>>with gcc-3.2.x instead.
> 
> 
>>It would make more sense to identify the problem and do s.th.
>>about it to resolve this issue then.
> 
> 
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14563

Wow, this is an interesting story about exception handling.

What I'm asking myself now:

Should we try again to use dwarf2 exceptions?

Should we try to find the reason why SjLj exceptions are slower on
Cygwin than for the rest of the world?


Gerrit
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