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A comment on Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian.

Re:Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Littl... by salutte on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:40AM (#12142255)
I would love to see the same benchmark with --march=native. I doubt AVX would be used without this flag on the Intel platform, and this might be also hindering the Power8.
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Re:Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Littl... by rwmj on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:46AM (#12142266)
FWIW RHEL 7.3 (ppc64le) will be compiled for POWER8 only. As I discovered the other day, binaries will randomly segfault if you try to run them on POWER7.
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