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Subject: Re: Benchmarking Crafty: G5 vs Xeon

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 01:04:18 09/19/03

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On September 19, 2003 at 00:03:40, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On September 18, 2003 at 22:39:34, Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>>The gang over at http://www.veritest.com was contracted by Apple to run the SPEC
>>benchmarks on the new PowerMac dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5.  For comparison
>>purposes, a Dell dual 3.06 GHz Xeon was also used in the testing.  The Mac was
>>running Mac OS X 10.2.7 while the Dell ran Red Hat Linux 9.0.
>
>
>Any data on which compilers were used? I think it could change that 1%
>significantly up or down when you consider gcc vs. the Intel compiler for the
>Linux box. I have no idea about compilers for the Mac.

IBM released a OS X compiler recently which is reported to be much better than
gcc.  I hope it's true (gcc for the PowerPC family of processors is very
unimpressive),
but I haven't tried it out myself yet.

Tord



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