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Subject: Re: GCC beats MSVC by 50% on crafty according to german magazine!

Author: martin fierz

Date: 11:09:08 03/13/02

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On March 13, 2002 at 05:00:48, Dan Andersson wrote:

>I read it like this: They compared the ratios GCC3.0x/GCC2.95.3 and ICC/MSVC
>separately. Not the ratios GCC3.0x/MSVC and ICC/MSVC. Else it does not make much
>sense. Though the latest GCC3.04 and snapshot-GCC are getting much better at the
>crafty bench than the last stable GCC2.xx. The main point is that the latest PPC
>processors don't hold any IPC advantage over x86 processors. The reverse is true
>if you discount bandwidth sensitive benchmarks (L3 :)
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

no, look at the graphic - it explains what is what at the bottom, the 444 bar
(orange) is PIII 1GHz GCC and the 297 bar (red)is PIII 1GHz MSC. they are
comparing the two compilers, but maybe they didnt use proper optimizations in
MSC? any ideas anyone?

aloha
  martin



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