Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 11:23:10 06/24/03
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On June 24, 2003 at 14:10:24, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On June 24, 2003 at 14:02:02, Andreas Guettinger wrote: > >>On June 24, 2003 at 10:15:48, Dan Andersson wrote: >> >>>http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/ >> >>I very good laugh indeed. The guy in the article compares G5/Xeon results using >>VeriTest compiled on gcc3.3 with Intel P4 results and another Dell WS with >>VeriTest compiled on Intel C++ 7.0 compiler. >> >> >>Compiler: >>Intel C++ 7.0 build 20021021Z >> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0.9466 (libraries) >> >>The AMDs may be faster but you cannot compare benchmarks compiled with different >>compilers. > >Sure you can. SPEC CPU is a CPU benchmark, not a CPU + gcc benchmark. You use >whatever compiler you can to get the best score possible to indicate raw CPU >performance. > >-Tom Well, this tells us that VeriTest runs better compiled with Intel C++, but this dosen't tell us anything about the CPU performance. To discover that IntelC++ optimizes better than gcc on Intel chips I don't need to see a benchmark. :) See, same machine: Dell Precision 650 (Pentium 4 Xeon 3.06 GHz) Apple/Veritest Compiler gcc3.3 Score: 836 Dell Precision 650 (Pentium 4 Xeon 3.06 GHz) Dell Compiler IntelC++ 7.0 Score: 1089
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