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RE: GCJ Benchmarkes
- From: "Jeroen Frijters" <jeroen at sumatra dot nl>
- To: "Marco Trudel" <mtrudel at gmx dot ch>, "GCJ" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:38:21 +0100
- Subject: RE: GCJ Benchmarkes
Marco Trudel wrote:
> Did anyone benchmark GCJ? I'm searching for some good tests
> to compare GCJ to a 1.5 Sun JVM. So far I found this benchmark:
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/linpack.html
> It will run about 1.2 times faster on GCJ compiled applications than
> with a Sun JVM.
The reason GCJ is faster than the Sun JVM is most likely because GCJ's
floating point handling is not spec compliant.
Full disclosure: IKVM "suffers" from this too.
Regards,
Jeroen