2.3 for Unix
Markus Kohler
markus_kohler at hp.com
Thu Feb 4 09:09:48 UTC 1999
Marcus Denker wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 01:28:19PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > One thing I noticed is that glibc is a lot slower?! See this Integer
> > benchmarks:
> >
> > Ian's i386-linux-2.0.36 (glibc): 14662000
> > Ian's i386-linux-2.1.24 (libc): 21097000
> > My i386-linux-2.0.33 (libc): 19841000
> >
> > Any explanation?
> >
> Yep, different compiler (egcs Vs. gcc).
>
> You can get this info with:
>
> marcus at wombat:~ $ strings /usr/bin/squeakvm |grep gcc
> gcc 2.7.2.3
>
> Some tests: (Pentium, 133Mhz, DebianLinux)
>
> SqueakVM-2.3-i386-linux-2.1.24 (libc, gcc 2.7.2.1)
>
> '6097560 bytecodes/sec; 312410 sends/sec'
>
> SqueakVM-2.3-i386-linux-2.0.36 (glibc, gcc egcs-2.91.60)
> '5208333 bytecodes/sec; 300894 sends/sec'
>
> The strange thing is, that egcs should produce *faster* code.
> (egcs is the development Version of gccV3)
>
> I think that the interpretation of the flag "-O2" is a little
> bit different when egcs is used.
>
> The Squeak Makefiles use following optimization-flags:
> -O2 -malign-functions=2 -malign-jumps=3 -malign-loops=2
>
> My own (/usr/bin/squeakvm), glibc, gcc 2.7.2.3
> '6578947 bytecodes/sec; 343850 sends/sec' my own (glibc)
>
> compiled (gcc) with:
>
> -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -m486 -malign-functions=2 -malign-jumps=3
> -malign-loops=2
>
> So these strange options really help with performance...
>
> Using a *very* old version (egcs-2.90.26 980308 (egcs-1.0.2 prerelease))
> and Options: -O5 -mpentium:
>
> '7042253 bytecodes/sec; 362387 sends/sec'
>
That's an impressive improvement !
There are performance problems with some versions of egcs. I think the
newest version (1.1 ?) should fix this.
There's also a special pgcc for pentium's. It should be the fastest
compiler
for X86 based Linux machines.
By the way I get 11111111 bytecodes/sec on a C180 (HP-UX 10.20) with
egcs 1.02.
This is a bit low since a G3 seems to produce more than 20000000
bytecodes/sec at
a similiar clock speed.
It's interesting to note that the "normal" interpreter runs much faster
if I compile
it with the HP compiler. So If I could compile the gnuified interpreter
with the
HP compiler I could probably get a significant speedup. To bad that I
have no idea
about PA-RISC assembler :-(
Markus
--
Markus Kohler mailto:markus_kohler at hp.com
More information about the Squeak-dev
mailing list
|