Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:38:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: Benchmark PGCC vs EGCS on a K6-2
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On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 10:47:23AM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> Hmm... don't know. You might also try out egcs benchmark suite. It gets
> lots of results and they are pretty exact (at least for me) and useable for
> tunning the compiler. Take a look at egcs homepage to get it...

However, the benchmark pages are not very helpful (yet) in determining 
where to get it, I'm supposed to change that, but when.... ;(

In short, its only available through egcs cvs. You can follow the
instructions to check out the egcs source tree, but instead of entering

cvs co egcs

just enter

cvs co benchmarks

> optimization for Pentium CPU. This change caused performance loss due to reduced
> pairing oportunities.
> It should not affect non-riscified code anyway.

It does, about as rarely as it does affect riscified code ;)

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