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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:48 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: Let's use gcc-4.2, not 4.1 -- OpenMP 
Message-ID:  <23331.1166189988@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:50:08 %2B0100." <200612151250.10033.shoesoft@gmx.net> 

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In message <200612151250.10033.shoesoft@gmx.net>, Stefan Ehmann writes:

>Settings/Compiler           | gcc-3.4 | gcc-4.1 | gcc-4.2
>----------------------------+---------+---------+---------
>-O2                         |  13.1bn |  13.8bn |  13.5bn
>-O2 -funroll-loops          |   9.6bn |   9.3bn |   9.2bn
>-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fun.. |   9.7bn |  10.6bn |  10.7bn
>-O3                         |  11.5bn |   9.5bn |   9.6bn
>-O3 -funroll-loops          |   8.4bn |   9.2bn |   9.4bn
>-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fun.. |   8.8bn |  10.6bn |  11.1bn

I love benchmarks.

It's great when people benchmark things.

Unfortunately, that is not what you have done, because you have
not indicated what the standard deviation on your numbers are,
so they are totally worthless.

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