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Subject: Re: CLARIFICATION

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 02:24:11 05/19/02

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On May 18, 2002 at 13:17:50, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On May 18, 2002 at 08:21:29, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Zeke Smigel did for me a test and it was rather surprising.
>>
>>At his K7 1.4Ghz MP:
>>
>>  intel c++ 6.0 (reinforced with profile branch information):
>>
>>  64919.8 nodes a second
>>
>>
>>  gcc 3.1 (not reinforced with profile branch information as
>>           i didn't get this to work yet):
>>
>>  68135.2 nodes a second
>>
>>
>>At intel P3-800Mhz under linux gcc 3.1 was only 5.1% slower than
>>the intel c++ 6.0 version. This is very good result for gcc 3.1
>>(consider it is without profiling branch optimization yet)
>>
>>So in short GCC 3.1 kicks butt!!
>
>My preliminary tests results are quite impressive. It's now easy to use
>execution profiling to improve results. Without execution profiling, I get a
>speedup of between 5 and 6 percent. With execution profiling I'm getting over
>10% speedup. I'm going to more tests, but so far I'm very happy with this.
>
> Andrew
>

These figures for my program are in comparison with GCC 2.95.3, not with the
Intel compiler, which I have not tried yet.

Andrew



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