On 5/2/05, Scott Robert Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to a look at my just-published review of GCC 4.0, where I > compare it's performance on some well-known applications, including LAME > and POV-Ray, on Pentium 4 and Opteron. In terms of POV-Ray, 4.0 produced > a smaller executable that was slightly slower than did 3.4.3. You can > find the full review at: While POV has an impressive array of features and is quite valuable as a large FP intensive legacy standard for compiler writers (or raytracer writers :), i wouldn't consider it state of the art or a speed daemon either; to put it bluntly it's incredibly slow.
For those reasons i consider it's not representative of the kind of computationnal performance gcc can extract from a modern CPU at all: again, in my own experience, gcc4.x is light years away from previous versions. Now i'm not familiar enough with the other cited sources to comment.
