Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/12/08/05:26:29
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 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).
What is especially significant is that, while the average performance is
almost identical, there's some very large (40% or more!) differences in
several individual tests. It would be interesting to know whether these
tests have any practical implications (e.g., it might be that those tests
use code which will rarely happen in real-world programs).
If the tests are of practical importance, I think it would be interesting
to know what are the cases where GCC-generated code is much slower than
Watcom's, and vice versa. From time to time, people ask here questions
about relative performance, and all we usually tell them is ``almost
identical''.
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