On 4/5/2012 12:17 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
Robert Dewar<de...@adacore.com> writes:
We have run into people running benchmarks where they were
specifically prohibited from using other than the default
options, and gcc fared badly in such comparisons.
Yeah, there was the silly "benchmark" at phoronix where they came to
the conclusion that tcc was a better compiler than gcc because it
generated faster programs when run without any options...
[*] Phoronix is well known for completely clueless benchmarking
practices, but ... unfortunately some people actually seem to pay
attention to what they say.
Well a lot of users have been burned by using optimization
options, either becausae of compiler bugs, or because of bugs
in their own code triggered by optimization. So the requirement
of not using any optimization options is not that uncommon.
-miles
