Hello, I use the Ruby language for work and pleasure and recently decided to test Intel C 8.1 as per the lang/icc port for the ruby interpreter, which has been shown to be quite sluggish sometimes.
I have run a test on my workstation which showed a significant improvement which I wanted to share with you.
The benchmark in question is a small one which generates a mandelbrot, you can find it here: http://www.timestretch.com/FractalBenchmark.html#346e82c069dbc3bc26fa841434a43ed5
1. Machine specs OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (Apr 29, 2007) i386 (32 bit) Kernel: SMP + cpu I686_CPU only + SCHED_ULE CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz (2383.99-MHz 686-class CPU) RAM: 2GB DDR1 @ 400 Motherboard: Asrock Chipset: i865 @ 1066 FSB (yes, I know) /etc/make.conf: CFLAGS=-Os COPTFLAGS=-Os CPUTYPE=prescott (One CPU core was 100% busy running some other stuff the whole time.) 2. Ruby compiled with in-built GCC gcc version 3.4.6 ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-freebsd6] Benchmark times (secs): 7.725779, 7.627775, 6.990523, 7.599726, 7.629552 Avg = 7.514671 3. Ruby compiled with ports/lang/icc 8.1 Compile options: -g -O2 ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-freebsd6.2] Benchmark times: 5.870923, 6.201353, 6.271936, 6.293150, 6.369043 Avg = 6.201281 Improvement = 17.5%! _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
