Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:

The GCC 2.7.2.x backend used by GPC knows nothing about pentium optimzations or instruction scheduling.

I'd think the direct push is also faster on a 386/486, isn't it? (As I said in another mail, I couldn't check it myself.)

[...] So, I guess more work is needed here (by the GCC crew), although this compiler produces significantly faster code already :-)

Do you know who one could report this problem to, and ask about the backend in general (newsgroups, addresses)? There's another issue (concerning our planned OOP-interface implementation) that I'd like to ask someone about.