Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/01/24/00:17:15
A friend of mine, Christian Jullien, has released a lisp interpreter
written in C. (1)
I thought it would be interesting to see the benchmarks of different compilers
with all optimizations turned on.
Here are his results for the different benchmark functions of his interpreter:
fib, tkl, etc.
;; Gabriel's benchmark for OpenLisp
;; Watcom C 11.0 DOS (32 bits) 12.30 s.
;; Watcom C 11.0 NT (32 bits) 12.50 s.
;; Microsoft C 11.0 NT (32 bits) 13.26 s.
;; IBM Visual Age C NT (32 bits) 13.30 s.
;; Symantec C 7.2 DOS (32 bits) 14.06 s.
;; GNU GCC 2.7.2 NT (32 bits) 14.21 s.
;; Symantec C 7.2 NT (32 bits) 14.46 s.
;; LCC C Compiler NT (32 bits) 15.49 s.
;; Borland C 5.00 NT (32 bits) 16.20 s.
;; GNU GCC 2.7.2 DOS (32 bits) 16.37 s.
;; EGCS 1.0 NT (32 bits) 16.72 s.
;; Borland C 5.00 DOS (16 bits) 29.79 s.
;; Microsoft C 8.0c DOS (16 bits) 24.83 s.
All benchmarks were done in a pentium 200 with 64MB RAM and NT 4.0.
This impressed me for several reasons. Obviously I was very happy that my
work (lcc-win32) goes faster than Borland C 5.00... a commercial compiler.
But beyond that, it is interesting to note that :
o The absolute differences between the fastet and slower compiler in 32 bits
is only 4.42 seconds, i.e. approx 25%.
o The difference between lcc-win32 and the fastest compiler is 3.19 seconds,
i.e. approx 20%.
o The difference between the best version of gcc and lcc-win32 is only 8%.
o The relatively bad performance of egcs is surprising.
Given that the team for all the system in lcc-win32 is only three people, this
is a reason to be proud of.
The optimizer I wrote for lcc is based only in one objective:
*reduce the code size*
Nothing executes faster than a deleted instruction. This seems to pay well!
Smaller code fits better in the cache, and reduces main memory access.
In the future and if time permits, I will try to improve it by adding CSE
and loop peephole register allocation.
I wonder what is going wrong with egcs, since it is gcc based...
Comments welcome.
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(1) For more information on OpenLisp see: http://www.ilog.fr:8001/Eligis
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Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique
41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel 01 48.23.51.44
93430 Villetaneuse Fax 01 48.23.95.39
France
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