We have investigated these benchmarks for PowerPC. The high-level analysis is:
>>>>> Daniel Berlin writes: >> An interesting examples are: >> -177.mesa (this is a c test), where icc is almost 40% faster FP to Int conversion. Dan> SSE Vectorization, I believe. >> -178.galgel, where icc is again 40% faster Dan> This is because of a better fortran *library*, not compiler. Dan> IIRC, it's all in matmul. Agreed, Fortran90 arrays and matmul. >> -179.art, where llvm is more than 1.5x faster than both gcc and icc Dan> taken care of on struct-reorg. Agreed, art hack on struct-reorg branch. >> -187.facerec, where icc is 100% faster than gcc Dan> No idea. Fortran90 arrays. >> -189.lucas, where icc is 60% faster Dan> No idea, though i'd imagine its the same issue. Fortran90 arrays and FP to Int conversion. David