some alpha benchmarks

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Thu Jan 29 20:31:00 GMT 1998


On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 01:13:55AM +0300, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> > > gcc-2.7.2.3	1217431.250000 dhrystones/second
> > > gcc-2.8.0	1203512.375000 dhrystones/second
> > > egcs-1.0.1	1180675.500000 dhrystones/second
> > > egcs-1.0.1haifa	1227936.500000 dhrystones/second
> > > egcs-980122haifa 804820.500000 dhrystones/second
> 
> Files attached.

The difference appears to be entirely related to the new builtin_memcpy
code I added for Alpha.  While the new stuff is definitely better for
unaligned structures (containing characters or whatnot), it is worse for
aligned structures.

I'll work on a fix for this.


r~



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