[PlanetCCRMA] redhat 8.0

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Oct 11 01:19:01 2002


On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:06:40PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>    Personally I didn't see that much value as it looked like it was the same
> kernel. (I think...) My thought is to stay put until RH has a 2.5.X kernel,

Ugh, me again, sorry, forgot to put this before.

The big advantage is gcc3.2, it produces *much* better C code and has ABI
compatibility for C++. I've seen 30% speed improvements in math heavy
code.

- Steve