On 20 Apr 2007, at 08:30, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
11) H.J. Lu discussed SPEC CPU 2006. He reported that a couple of the
tests do not run successfully, and it appears to be due to bugs in
the tests which cause gcc to compile them in unexpected ways. He
has been reporting the problems to the SPEC committee, but is
being ignored. He encouraged other people to try it themselves
and make their own reports.
I'm not sure what 'tests' mean here... Are test cases being extracted
from the SPEC CPU2006 sources? Or are you refering to the validity
tests of the SPEC framework itself (to check whether the output
generated by some binary conforms with their reference output)?
12) Jose Dana reported his results comparing different versions of gcc
and icc at CERN. They have a lot of performance sensitive C++
code, and have gathered a large number of standalone snippets
which they use for performance comparisons. Some of these can
directly become bugzilla enhancement requests. In general this
could ideally be turned into a free performance testsuite. All
the code is under free software licenses.
Is this performance testsuite available somewhere? Sounds interesting
to add to my (long) list of benchmark suites.
greetings,
Kenneth
--
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but
what they conceal is vital (Aaron Levenstein)
Kenneth Hoste
ELIS - Ghent University
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http://www.elis.ugent.be/~kehoste
