Benchmarks results for Compilers on FreeBSD 11

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Mon Aug 29 06:08:28 UTC 2016


Hi,

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 01:41:42 +0200
Fernando Herrero Carrón <elferdo at gmail.com> wrote:

> El 28/8/2016 0:06, "Erich Dollansky" <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com>
> escribió:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Micheal did a plain compiler benchmark on FreeBSD 11:
> >
> >  
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd11-clang-gcc&num=1
> >
> > It shows clearly how slow CLang is compared to GCC.
> >
> > This is the price FreeBSD has to pay to be free of GPL in the base
> > system.
> >
> > Erich  
> 
> Very cool comparison, thanks a lot!
> 
> I think gcc has a lot of knowledge and experience under its belt, a
> larger user base so no wonder it performs [slightly] worse. What has
> really surprised me has been ImageMagick, apparently because of
> openmp. The OpenMP stack has been contributed by intel, clang 3.4 if
> I recall it right. Surprising.
> 
this time, Micheal did a good job. GCC is just too old to be bad. The
situation was the same for GCC when it was compared to commercial
compilers those days. GCC was a lot slower.

Erich


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