Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 09:08:00 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT dilnet DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
Reply-To: Orlando Andico <orly AT dilnet DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Vic wrote:

> hello. Do you remember Thomas Djafari's test? It was a DCT compressor to
> see the performance of different compilers. anyways, today I recompiled
> the thingie and it was 2 times slower! After playing around with the
> flags for a while, I realised it must be something else. The only thing
> I changed were the binutils. So I do a test:
> with -O6 -ffast-math -mpentium -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
> I get:
> With BNU 2.7:
> approx. 2939 million clocks compressing
> approx. 2561 million clocks decompressing
> With BNU 2.8.1 I get
> approx. 3326 million clocks compressing
> approx. 2965 million clocks decompressing
> Why is this slower when using BNU2.8.1?? what are the new things
> installed in it? 

That's strange. I just ran a more-or-less "standard" benchmark, using
gcc-2.7.2.1 and PGCC/egcs-970910, both using BNU-2.7 (I did not upgrade to
2.8.1 as the PGCC page suggests). I ran two sets of tests: the v2.0 DP
FLOPS benchmark from ftp.nosc.mil, and LINPACK-C. Here's what I got
(results on the left are for egcs, on the right for gcc):

--
Pentium-100 MHz
gcc -O6 -mpentium -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce
i386-linux-gcc -O2 -m486 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce

FLOPS C Program (Double Precision), V2.0 18 Dec 1992
 (1) 15.1022/11.9219 MFLOPS
 (2) 14.4005/12.0392 MFLOPS
 (3) 22.8970/17.5147 MFLOPS
 (4) 33.5495/23.6551 MFLOPS

LINPACK-C
 Double-precision, rolled    12.60/10.01 MFLOPS
 Double-precision, unrolled  13.04/12.14 MFLOPS
 Single-precision, rolled    14.59/11.33 MFLOPS
 Single-precision, unrolled  15.31/13.68 MFLOPS


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