Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.
Date: 10:02:30 08/30/03
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On August 29, 2003 at 23:34:09, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/insidespeccpu/insidespeccpu2000-opteron2.html > >An interesting comparison of compilers. We can see that compilers using AMD64 >give Crafty between 50-100% speed improvement over x86-32. If only those >compilers were to the level of ICC/MSVC in the first place, it might be a real >big win, but the weakness of GCC/(and especially)PGO compilers means that the >speed boost doesn't translate into that much real gain over what the best 32-bit >compilers already give. GCC using AMD64 does, however, net a 30% increase in >speed over ICC's score. > >Once we get a *good* compiler for these systems, I think Bob will finally be >proven right about the benefits of 64-bit processors for Crafty. While on the Subject,when will a compiler tuned for the Operton be available? I think I read here that a Opteron compiler was in beta testing.
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