Defending GCC considered futile

Re:Defending GCC considered futile by darkpore on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:43AM (#9027770)

Yep - you evidently didn't read mine as 165 k lines of c++ isn't exactly a small benchmark :)

Anecdotal, but I've seen similar improvements over g++ in my code.

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Re:Defending GCC considered futile by sanxiyn on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:53AM (#9027867)

There are many measures of benchmark sizes. One important measure is size of codes that account for 99% of execution time. If your codebase is a million lines but your hotspot is a thousand lines, benchmark result is sensitive to optimization quirks and in some sense benchmark is small.

More on this idea here: http://blog.pyston.org/2014/12/05/python-benchmark-sizes/

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