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Subject: Re: gcc versus intel c

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 21:45:24 02/18/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 21:13:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 18, 2003 at 20:43:13, Sean Mintz wrote:
>
>>Using the latest MingW32 available (gcc 3.2, for windows) I compiled tscp 1.73.
>>A long time ago I had compiled 1.73 using intel c 5 with all optimizations and
>>profiling and made the fastest executable for amd processors there was (you can
>>even check the tscp benchmark site
>>http://home.attbi.com/~tckerrigan/bench.html).
>>
>>Here's the results:
>>
>>Compiler   MIPS
>>Intel C[1] 1452.4
>>GCC[2]     1598.1
>>
>>1 - (Profile directed) icl *.c -O2 -Qipo -QxiM -G6 -Qunroll -Qprof_use
>>-Qprof_dir c:\profiles
>
>
>You might try this:  It is the fastest I have found for Intel and Crafty:
>
>
>               CFLAGS='$(CFLAGS) -D_REENTRANT -O2 -march=pentiumiii \
>                        -mcpu=pentiumpro -prof_gen -prof_dir ./profdir \
>                        -fno-alias -tpp6' \
>
>The above will compile for a pentium 3 box.  Pentium4 needs a change.  But
>I would avoid the unroll options and so forth and let the compiler do what
>it wants...
<snip>

Not when talking specifically about Athlon. AMD recommends lavish unrolling.

-Matt



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