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Re: GCC 4.6 performance regressions
Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> writes:
>> Because phoronix uses make -j the compile times are highly random.
>
> Don't they know how to use 'time' to measure something more useful?
> I wouldn't be entirely surprised, last time I looked they didn't seem
> to know to use --enable-checking=release when comparing compile time
> of snapshots against releases.
While I appreciate Phoronix as a booster site, their benchmarking
practice often seems very dodgy; I'd take the results with a large grain
of salt....
-miles
--
.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.