Wooohooo... my big old Dell box at home just ran through my C++ performance test suite. True to the promises gcc 4's output is about 15% faster (on average) that gcc 3.4.3's output across the same suite. :-) -- Geoff Teale CMed Technology - gteale at cmedltd.com Free Software Foundation - tealeg at member.fsf.org /^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/^\v/