http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54073
--- Comment #1 from Artem S. Tashkinov <t.artem at mailcity dot com> 2012-07-23 15:43:50 UTC --- The results are obtained from here: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1207077-SU-GCCPERFOR59 Benchmarking of GCC 4.2 through GCC 4.8 when building the compiler the same and setting CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS of -O3 and -march=native prior to test installation and execution. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. Testing on an Intel Core i7 and AMD Opteron 2384 when using the 64-bit (x86_64 target) build of Ubuntu Linux. The CPU is: Nehalem microarchitecture, "Clarksfield" (45 nm), Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Processor (6M Cache, 1.60 GHz) http://ark.intel.com/products/43122/Intel-Core-i7-720QM-Processor-%286M-Cache-1_60-GHz%29