Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:16:37 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhrystone 2.1 result for gcc-2.7.2 with Pentium patches is poor Message-ID: <199601231816.KAA22463@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:05:10 MST." <199601231805.LAA17908@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry wrote: > > I haven't tried those patches, but this kind of thing comes up regularly > > in compiler-related newsgroups. Look: the Dhrystone "benchmark" is > > _completely_ worthless and meaningless for today's compilers. You are > > wasting your time messing with it. It will only mislead you. > > You mean "it is so useless that the GCC people are no longer optimizing > for it"? > > 8-) 8-) 8-). Weeeellll .... I wouldn't go so far as to say _that_ :-). -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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