FreeBSD Compiler Benchmark: gcc-base vs. gcc-ports vs. clang

Vinícius Zavam egypcio at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 13 00:14:37 UTC 2011


2011/3/12 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>:
> In message <4D7B44AF.7040406 at FreeBSD.org>, Martin Matuska writes:
>
>
> Thanks a lot for doing this properly.
>
>>What significance level should I take?
>
> I think I set ministat(1) to use 95 % confidence level by default
> and that is in general a pretty safe bet (1 in 20 chance)
>
>>I hope this approach is better :)
>
> Much, much better.
>
> As I said, this was not to go after you personally, but to point
> out that we need to be more rigorous with benchmarks in general.
>
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> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

i'm still curious about things like CPUTYPE= and -march= configured as
native, gentlemen.
is it the "golden egg" to use with our system or not? why "natives"
aren't in the benchs?

/me feels confused.


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