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Re: benchmarks
- To: root <root at jacob dot remcomp dot fr>
- Subject: Re: benchmarks
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 00:52:25 +1100
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <m0xvW2v-000AK3C@jacob.remcomp.fr>
On 23-Jan-1998, root <root@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:
> I thought it would be interesting to see the benchmarks of different compilers
> with all optimizations turned on.
Yes, this is interesting. But it would be more useful if you also
listed exactly which options you used for each compiler.
> o The relatively bad performance of egcs is surprising.
I have heard that ECGS's treatment of exception handling imposes some costs,
even for C code which doesn't use exceptions. I think there is an option
to turn it off, which reportedly improves performance significantly.
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