On Mon, 28 May 2001, Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
> The VM in 2.4.5 might be largely 'fixed' and I know that the VM changes in
> -ac were considered to be but still broken, however for me they worked
> better than what is in 2.4.5.
The VM changes in 2.4.5 fixed a very serious performance problem. IMHO,
2.4.5 is a step in the right direction. (and I hope more steps are in
the offing;)
> I have a rather aging P5MMX at 200MHz with 64MB RAM, and I'm only judging
> interactive use (not measuring anything like compile times etc).
Interactive performance became a problem here exactly at the point when
we stopped waiting for the vm to produce results. (which rather sucks,
because that's also the spot where throughput improved [non-suprise])
-Mike
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