SPEC 2000 results on PowerPC

[Steven Bosscher]

On Tuesday 17 August 2004 19:16, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I've now got SPEC 2000 results for PowerPC.
>
> I'm using a G5 and ran with "-O2 -mcpu=970".  My goal is not to
> demonstrate how fast this machine is, but rather to compare the current
> mainline with the last release.
>
> The current mainline is, I would say, somewhat better than 3.4.1.
>
> Three tests (176.gcc,187.facerec,189.lucas) work with 3.5

Those last two are Fortran 90 tests, so they never could work with 3.4.

> Two tests (186.crafty and 200.sixtrack) that did work with 3.4.1 no
> longer work with 3.5

sixtrack has an ENTRY statement.  Big kudos to Paul and Tobi for
working on that.  Actually, it's a subroutine ENTRY so perhaps it
would now work (Paul?).

Gr.
Steven