Joerg,

This is now CR:6872875.

Alexander

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Since a longer time, the SunStudio optimizer creates significantly
> better optimized code for intel 32 Bit binaries (typically 20%-30%
> faster than what GCC creates).
>
> If you try to create 64 bit binaries, things look different.
>
> If you e.g. get my recent Schily source consolidation, you will see that
> the Reed Solomon Coder and the libmdigest code get slower binaries from
> SunStudio.
>
> Get ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/schily-2009-08-12.tar.bz2
>
> and call:
>
> gmake to first create a smake boostrap binary and then use this smake
> boostrap to create Sun Studio 32 bit binaries.
>
>
>
> then call:
>
> psmake/smake CCOM=cc64                to create 64 Bit Sun Studio binaries
> psmake/smake CCOM=gcc         to create 32 Bit GCC binaries
> psmake/smake CCOM=gcc64               to create 64 Bit GCC binaries
>
> Then call:
>
> mdigest/OBJ/i386-sunos5-cc/mdigest -a sha512 some-file
> mdigest/OBJ/i386-sunos5-cc64/mdigest -a sha512 some-file
> mdigest/OBJ/i386-sunos5-gcc/mdigest -a sha512 some-file
> mdigest/OBJ/i386-sunos5-gcc64/mdigest -a sha512 some-file
>
> and compare the speed and the user CPU time.
>
> You may also chdir to "libedc" and call smake -f speed.mk
> to create a Reed Solomon speed test.....
>
> Is there a chance that SunStudio will get better optimization for amd64?
>
> J?rg
>
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