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Subject: Re: Homer Leiden 64Bit for MAC OSX

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 11:58:12 12/19/05

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On December 19, 2005 at 11:36:50, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On December 19, 2005 at 11:24:56, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:
>
>>Homer x64 has a speedup of 10-20% versus the 32Bit version.
>>I created now a 64Bit version of Homer Leiden for MAC OSX too.
>>But i can't test it, because i haven't an G5 CPU. You can download
>>it on the same way as the Windows x64 version.
>>It would be very interessting how much speedup this version gets.
>
>Hi Daniel,
>
>I just gave it a try on my iMac G5, with a rather disappointing result:
>The G5 executable was actually about 5% *slower* than the regular
>version.

Yes, the executable is slower than the G4 one. I get 330 knps with the G4, 315
knps with the G5 one in  the starting postion.

>Which compiler flags do you use?  I add "-mcpu=G5 -mpowerpc64"
>to the compiler flags when compiling a G5 optimised Glaurung
>executable.
>
>Tord

Additional flags would be "-mtune=G5" and "-fast" which turns on some PowerPc
specific optimizations.

Andreas



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