Re: povray: a benchmark with mainline, tree-ssa, and icc

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

> >                compile  benchmark
> >                 time      time
> >               --------  ---------
> > gcc mainline    1:43      7:59
> > gcc tree-ssa    2:40      7:24
>
> This is a pretty surprising number.
> Are you sure you disabled checking?
> tree-ssa does a lot more checking than the mainline does, so with 
> checking on, it will be significantly slower in some cases.

I should also note that the benchmark time is ~6% *faster*.
6% is not insignificant.