Author: martin fierz
Date: 21:29:21 03/12/02
aloha! here's something i found on a german computer magazine website: (http://www.heise.de/ct/english/02/05/182/) "Under Windows we made use of Visual Studio 6 (with Service Pack 5), with which in all probability most Windows applications have been created. The SPEC results obtained with the new compilers such as the current GCC 3.0 or Intel's in-house compiler are better by between ten and more than twenty percent. [snip] With a SPECint_base value of 306 Apple's 1 GHz machine under Mac OS X ran almost head to head with the equally clocked Pentium III, combined with Linux and GCC, with a SPECint_base value of 309. Under Windows, the bad quality of Microsoft's run-of-the-mill compiler, which pushed the system down to a SPECint_base value of 236, below the 242 value of the PowerMac running at a clock cycle of 800 MHz, came back to haunt the Intel processor." and then there is the link http://www.heise.de/ct/english/02/05/182/qpic01.jpg which shows the specint crafty result which is a whopping 444 for GCC and only 293 for MSVC. is this really possible?? i remember i once tried GCC for my checkers program, and of course it's long ago, but it was clearly worse than MSVC at the time. i just can't remember anybody posting anything like this here, GCC being 50% faster than MSVC... but usually, this magazine is good... cheers martin PS: just another question: is linux 32-bit or 64-bit? can i use more than 2-4GB ram under linux?
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