Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: [BENCHMARK] Corrected gcc3.2 v gcc2.95.3 contest results | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:45:05 -0200 |
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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. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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