On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:20:11AM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote: > We're supposed to be getting closer to a 4.1 release branch, but just > like in the past so-many releases we have succeeded again in slowing > down GCC, and we've slowed it down a _lot_ compared even to GCC 4.0. > > Taking SPECint and CSiBE as examples: > http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC/amd64/CINT/sandbox-britten/Total-time_big.png > http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/csibe/draw-diag.php?draw=sum-ot&basephp=s-i686-linux > > So for compiling all of SPECint with "-O2 -march=k8" on AMD64, we have > slowed down from ~210s for GCC 4.0 to >250s for CVS HEAD.
Unless we trade an improved SPECint score for this slowdown, I'd call that an RC bug. But looking at http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC/amd64/CINT/sandbox-britten/mean-int_big.png it seems that the scores have gotten worse lately.
