| Message ID | alpine.LSU.2.20.1702271843500.2487@anthias.pfeifer.com |
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On 02/27/2017 03:26 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Martin Reinecke wrote: >> thanks for applying the patch! >> Unfortunately I just noticed some mistakes in my wording :( >> Currently the sentence says >> "code [...] may run significantly slower [...] than they did [...]" >> I'm not a native speaker, but I guess it would be more correct >> to write >> "code [...] may run significantly more slowly [...] than it did [...]" > > I realized that we did not actually update this back then, and > will admit that "significantly more slowly" feels less natural > than "significantly slower" to me, but then I am not a native > speaker either. ;-) > > Sandra, what is your take on the patch below? Errrr.... I would have written "more slowly" (since this is an adverb modifying "run"), but apparently both usages are correct. https://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/79959-comparing-with-adverbs/ -Sandra
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Sandra Loosemore wrote: > Errrr.... I would have written "more slowly" (since this is an adverb > modifying "run"), but apparently both usages are correct. > > https://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/79959-comparing-with-adverbs/ Thank you, Sandra! Since both are viable, and you prefer "more slowly", and so did Martin by submitting his patch, I went ahead and committed this change. Ger "learned something new" ald
Index: changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.115 diff -u -r1.115 changes.html --- changes.html 28 May 2016 20:40:35 -0000 1.115 +++ changes.html 27 Feb 2017 22:23:27 -0000 @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ unwind info is emitted.</li> <li>On x86 targets, code containing floating-point calculations may - run significantly slower when compiled with GCC 4.5 in strict C99 + run significantly more slowly when compiled with GCC 4.5 in strict C99 conformance mode than they did with earlier GCC versions. This is due to stricter standard conformance of the compiler and can be avoided by using the option <code>-fexcess-precision=fast</code>; also see