benchmarking.

[IainS]

On 14 Jun 2008, at 21:18, Tobias Schlüter wrote:

> IainS wrote:
>> hi,
>> Is there a gfortran preferred or standard performance benchmark  
>> suite?
>
> gfortran is regularly tested with the Polyhedron benchmark suite  
> <http://polyhedron.com/polyhedron_benchmark_suite0html> and with  
> the SPEC fp benchmark suites <http://www.spec.org/>.
>
> Are you planning to do tests in unusual environments?  Please let  
> us know your results.

Systems are not that unusual (PPC64/Quad -  PPC/Dual -  Core Duo).
I've been working on a patch to implement the static linking of the  
fortran lib on darwin (which is complete, bar testing in a wider  
variety of situations).
In principle, the static linked lib should (potentially) be slightly  
higher performance - I was interested to know if there was a formal  
way to test this.

thanks for the links,
Iain