Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:53:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:53:41 -0400 Received: from 167.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.167]:27913 "EHLO Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:53:40 -0400 Message-Id: <200209240850.g8O8odp24965@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Denis Vlasenko Reply-To: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua To: Andrew Morton , Con Kolivas Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] Corrected gcc3.2 v gcc2.95.3 contest results Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:45:05 -0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Mark Hahn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1032835551.3d8fd1df2fba0@kolivas.net> <3D8FD580.F1320237@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <3D8FD580.F1320237@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 17 On 24 September 2002 01:01, Andrew Morton wrote: > (And if there's more than a 1% variation between same kernel, compiled > with different compilers then the test is bust. Kernel CPU time is > dominated by cache misses and runtime is dominated by IO wait. > Quality of code generation is of tiny significance) Well, not exactly. If it is true that Intel/MS compilers beat GCC by 30% on code size, 30% smaller kernel ought to make some difference. However, that will become a GCC code quality benchmark then. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/