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Subject: Re: Samsung Plans Alpha Motherboard Screamers For PC Prices

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 05:34:51 11/14/97

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On November 14, 1997 at 08:20:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 14, 1997 at 06:03:17, Rivat, Joel wrote:
>
>>Bob reports that some time ago I did testings showing that gcc was
>>better or equal that DEC compilers. Howewer this is not any more
>>true and I agree with DarkThought programmer to say that now
>>DEC compilers are much better. About 10-20% better for Chess Guru.
>
>10%-20% I buy.  But the speed difference we saw between the alpha/533
>running Linux and the alpha/500 running NT was almost 2X.  IE Data was
>running at 150K, Crafty on the Dec machine was running 250K.  I don't
>buy that this difference is because of GCC...

Bob,

Believe it or not -- we have actually measured a difference of roughly
45% in Dhrystone performance between "gcc -O1/O2/O3" and DEC Unix
DEC C V5.2-033 under Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 564) when unsign the
options "cc -O5 -tune ev56 -ifo -non_shared" for the latter.

=Ernst=



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