Chris Ridd <chrisridd at mac.com> wrote:
> > Oh, not again! There are serious apples vs. oranges issues in the
> > comparison to the level making it completely irrelevant. They compare
> > optimized compilations of one compiler with no-opt compilations of
> > another compiler. They compare openmp builds of one compiler with
> > non-openmp builds of another.
>
> They did only test default options for each compiler... which is a bit
> odd, and I agree it makes the tests fairly meaningless.
Given the fact that most OSS packages enable optimization for gcc and at the
same time disable optimization if Sun Studio is used, any "benchmark" that
results in favor of gcc is meaningless.
J?rg
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