From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <9907082101.AA30380@marc.watson.ibm.com> To: Nicholas Coult Cc: David DeHaven , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: HINT for LinuxPPC In-Reply-To: Message from Nicholas Coult of "Thu, 08 Jul 1999 10:51:20 CDT." Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 17:01:52 -0400 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >>>>> Nicholas Coult writes: Nicholas> Yes, I ran the Hint benchmark on my LinuxPPC machine. My hint benchmark Nicholas> page compares the results to a PII/300 running Linux: Nicholas> http://www.ima.umn.edu/~coult/hint.html egcs-1.1.2 does not actually know about the PPC750, so -mcpu=750 did not actually help. gcc-2.95 knows about PPC750 scheduling, makes better use of indexed addressing, and utilizes the CTR register for loops which should improve performance. Other PowerPC improvement are coming down the pike as soon as they can be cleaned up and added to GCC. Also, once the new p2 backend contributed to GCC by Cygnus is installed and stable, that should provide a better test of PII performance. David [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]