GCC Benchmarks (coybench), AMD64 and i686, 14 August 2004

[Zack Weinberg]

Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com> writes:

> There is one compiler that produces a perfect score on Paranoia: No 
> failures, defects, or flaws.
>
> GCC 3.5, on my Opteron system.
>
> Compiled with -march=opteron, GCC 3.5 has a perfect paranoia score. 
> Adding -O3 does *not* introduce any errors on the Opteron; adding 
> -ffast-math results in a *single* minor "flaw".

I imagine it helps that the Opteron actually has IEEE-conformant
floating point hardware.

zw