Re: Performance Comparison

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)]

> Alan probably misread the original message because HINT benchmark indeed

I did. Sorry for not replying earlier but I've been in the Algarve for a few
days.

> As with any other benchmark the compiler used does show in the results
> but not terribly much. To be completely certain the benchmark should be
> compiled with the same compiler, version and optimization flags which I
> think wasn't the case with Otto Solares' test runs but this can't
> explain all the differences.

The BSD and Linux gcc will produce close to identical code and different
libcs. If libc is involved then its still clearly a valid benchmark just
different things need fixing

> Yes, I agree. I suggest more people to try the HINT benchmark. The code
> is ANSI-C and seems generally professional quite unlike the bytemark
> benchmark.

A benchmark from an outside source, with no bias, with source code and no
huge fees is a rather nice thing. 

Richard Gooch has a performance monitoring patch for Linux. The PMC registers
on the PPro and higher can count many types of cache misses which may be
most enligtening


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