Re: [BENCHMARK] Corrected gcc3.2 v gcc2.95.3 contest results

Con Kolivas
2002-09-24T09:21:40Z

Quoting Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>:

> On 24 September 2002 01:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > (And if there's more than a 1% variation between same kernel, compiled
> > with different compilers then the test is bust. Kernel CPU time is
> > dominated by cache misses and runtime is dominated by IO wait.
> > Quality of code generation is of tiny significance)
>
> Well, not exactly. If it is true that Intel/MS compilers beat GCC
> by 30% on code size, 30% smaller kernel ought to make some difference.
>
> However, that will become a GCC code quality benchmark then.

Great well if someone has access to one of these compilers and can successfully
compile me a kernel using my .config I'd love to benchmark it for them.

Con.