Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

[Alexander V. Bilichenko]

Although I just wanna say that there is no reason trying compile kernel with
new shiny GCC 3.0 ;-). The result will be in kernel slowdown.

Maybe, we can try to use Intel C compiler for some important ;-) (beta
version work with linux).

Best regards,
Alexander                  mailto:[e-mail]
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthias Andree" <[e-mail]>
To: "Alexander V. Bilichenko" <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code!

> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Alexander V. Bilichenko wrote:
>
> > Hello All!
> > Some tests that I have recently check out.
> > kernel compiled with 3.0 (2.4.5) function call: 1000000 iteration. 3%
slower
> > than 2.95.
> > test example - hash table add/remove - 4% slower (compiled both
> > with -O2 -march=i686).
> > Why have this version been released?
>
> Because it comes with various other improvements, among them better
> error detection, better C++ support, integrated GCJ (but regretfully
> still without Ada 95), to name a few reasons.
>
> 3% to 4% loss in a first release of a new major release is not a big
> deal, although I found similar results on leafnode's texpire.
> However, 3% do not warrant me spending my time complaining. Maybe some
> optimization is missing, maybe other operations than the ones you
> checked are faster. So there.
>
> You might run an entire benchmark suite and report back, tough. :-)
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