Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/12/08/03:31:36
On 7 Dec 98, at 13:33, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net> wrote:
>
> > > I put some results of compiling the BYTE benchmarks with gcc,
> > > egcs and pgcc
> > > using differentswitchs. I included the results of an EXE compiled
> > > with Watcom
> > > 10.0a.
> > >
> >
> > Very interesting. One minor gripe: your tables are wider than the page so I
> > had to print them all in landscape to see the figures! Suppose it can't be
> > helped...
>
> Reduce the font, both (Netscape and IE) have this option. I used it at home
> (800x600) and don't needed it at work (1024x768).
>
> > >From what I can gather from my own experience and the experience of a few
> > other people I know, PGCC works very well on non-intel processors, while GCC
> > 2.8.0 doesn't seem to like non-intels that much. I've found that PGCC really
> > slows down my code with -O6, while gcc 2.8.0 with -march=pentium etc. gives
> > me a rather large speed boost (Large being one or two percent :-).
> >
> > BTW, according to the Byte benchmark that I had a few moths ago, my P200MMX
> > is a 234.3MHz Pentium on average (I think it was roughly the same for both
> > integer and floats) - that particular benchmark isn't that accurate. No,
> > I've not overclocked my processor.
>
> That's very close! the benchmark says your computer is XXX MHz compared with
> normal Pentium, no MMX Pentium. There are 10% of difference due to a much
> better cache strategy used in MMX CPUs so you should spect 220 MHz from the
> Benchmark ;-)
>
> In some days I'll upload a new table using geometric average, that's a little
> bit better for comparisson in this case (can be much better in other cases).
>
Tried also my build of pgcc-1.1 (I built it in September but didn't really used
it). There were no significant gain (less than 5%) but it benchmarks
were crashing near the end. With egcs-1.1.1 all went Ok.
One more thing to test is to compare egcs-1.1.1 built with HAIFA scheduler
enabled (all currently available binaries for egcs-1.1X) and disabled.
Perhaps it is necessary to test it before released normal release
of egcs-1.1.1 fpr DJGPP
Andris
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