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Subject: Re: CPU's and Spec int 2000 questions

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 10:15:02 10/24/04

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On October 24, 2004 at 11:54:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 24, 2004 at 02:36:11, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>
>>On October 24, 2004 at 00:45:21, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>
>>>On October 23, 2004 at 16:58:22, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>>
>>>>...
>>>>  Compiling a program in 64 bits will give any program at least a 10-15%
>>>>performance increase just from the extra registers.
>>>
>>>One of the SpecInt2k programs slows down when compiled in 64-bit mode by 30-40%.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Eugene
>>
>>So 11 programs get's faster and one is slower. Good to know.
>>
>>I found this link also interesting:
>>http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC/
>>
>>Suse checks out daily the gcc from cvs and compiles the spec test with it.
>>
>>I came to the following preliminary findings:
>>1) In order of performance from low to high for Crafty we have:
>>   GCC 2.95, 3.0, 3.1
>>
>>2) Probably the fastest compiler for Crafty is not GCC 3.1.
>>On http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC/CINT/d-permanent/index.html
>> a compiler peaked above 600 once. I have no idea if this compiler did produce
>>valid results.
>>
>>3) The following GCC-flags seems work best for Crafty:
>>   -O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer
>>
>>4) On http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC/CINT/d-permanent/index.html it look likes the
>>performance goes down for Crafty each release
>
>Use the Intel compiler.   GCC is simply no good if you can avoid it.  Of course
>for 64 bit it is the only choice for the moment, but Intel should have 64 bit
>stuff ready soon...

It already has.

http://www.intel.com/software/products/

Thanks,
Eugene



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