Re: OFFTOPIC: Best compiler ???
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:56:13 +0100 (BST)
> nbench-2.95 58196
> nbench-2.96 59112
> nbench-pgcc 59352
>
> I test them on a PII 450 with 512M as I already said I know benchmarks are
> not reliable ways to test compilers, but I was surprise by the performance of
> pgcc-2.95.1, it is supposed to be the faster of them, although 2.96 includes
> the new ia32 backend it is still in a beta stage, but pgcc-2.95.1 is based on
> 2.95.1 but it seems slower than it??
The other way to test compilers like the beta gcc 2.95.1 is to build perl
on about 8 platforms and see how many testsuite items fail. Thats also
very instructive.
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