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Re: [OT] GCC vs Intel C++ compiler benchmark
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: tprince at computer dot org
- Cc: Claus Fischer <claus dot fischer at clausfischer dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:59:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: [OT] GCC vs Intel C++ compiler benchmark
- References: <20020127124821.A25764@clausfischer.com><873d0st12b.fsf@deneb.enyo.de><E16UzeQ-0002ev-00@mclean.mail.mindspring.net><87aduy4gnt.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Yes, I observed that when I ran the HINT benchmark on Windows 95, NT,
> Linux 2.0.34 and 2.1.108 a few years ago (on identical hardware, using
> identical machine code). Using Linux, performance started to drop
> well before the 512 KB L2 cache is fully used by the benchmark, in
> contrast to NT. However, when the working set approaches 4 MB and
> beyond, Linux was faster again.
I've recovered the original web page. It is now available at:
http://www.enyo.de/fw/hint-1998/
Are similar results available for today's machines and operating
systems?