Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:44:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: Benchmark PGCC vs EGCS on a K6-2
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On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:13:55AM +0000, Jens-Uwe Rumstich wrote:
> But a MOV REG,Immediate is a short instruction and gets executed during
> the
> think I should try it out...

Yepp!

> > 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...
> 
> I didnīt know it... I give it a try :-)

The main advantage of that benchmark suite is that you can just "make
mail" or "make exhaustive" and that will send an automatic mail report
for inclusion into the test database (which is not currently publicly
accessible, but that'll change).

Also, Jan made it possible to make comparisons between runs (in case you
try to tweak the compiler) ;)

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