From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 23 10:17:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA07550 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07540 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:17:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA22463; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:16:38 -0800 Message-Id: <199601231816.KAA22463@austin.polstra.com> To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhrystone 2.1 result for gcc-2.7.2 with Pentium patches is poor In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:05:10 MST." <199601231805.LAA17908@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:16:37 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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