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Subject: Re: FINAL ANSWER

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:08:05 12/10/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 01:10:23, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On December 10, 2003 at 00:20:35, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>144 - SuSe 8 - gcc 33 -m32 = 1109
>>144 - SuSe 8 - gcc 33 -m64 = 1562
>>
>>41% going from 32 to 64 bit on Crafty!
>>
>>And others:
>>
>>144 - SuSe 8 - ICC 7.0 (32)= 1199
>>144 - W2003E - ICC 7.0 (32)= 1230
>
>I think there are more questions to answer. One is the one you just answered,
>which is how much of a speedup we can from the 64-bit compilation alone. Another
>is how much of a speedup we get from the Opteron's hardware (ex. 32-bit Athlon
>vs. 64-bit Athlon/Opteron).
>
>Another is how much of a speedup non-bitboard programs will get from the 64-bit
>hardware and 64-bit compilation. Maybe someone could compile some non-bitboard
>programs. I guess even TSCP's bench command might give us some answers.
>
>One question I have is, does the 32-bit gcc compilation on 64-bit hardware still
>take advantage of all 16 general purpose registers? Or does it compile it for a
>32-bit executable you could run on a 32-bit CPU?


When you specify -m32, you get an X86 executable, which means no unusual
registers or anything.  -m64 (default on the box I am testing on) adds
both 64 bit registers and the extra 8 registers %r8-%r15...




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