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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: [Announce] Benchmarks result tested with gcc, egcs and pgcc 
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:39:55 -0000
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> Hi All:
>
>   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...

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.

James Arthur - jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
http://www.arfa.clara.net/james/
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