Well, installing gcc 3.3.1 and using -mcpu=v9 didn't help. in fact it made
things worse. Unless someone has something clever I'm just gonna stop
tinkering with it - my goal was met (it is several orders of magnitude
faster than informix ) and the hardware is being replaced in a month or
two.
thanks for the ideas / comments.
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