Preview: Fedora 20 Updated vs. Fedora 21 Rawhide Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 2 July 2014 at 10:39 AM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 3 Comments.

Compile times can be slower with GCC 4.9.

Fedora 21 will have GCC 4.9 as its default compiler. Between GCC 4.8 and 4.9, there aren't too many performance differences for common Linux benchmarks on modern x86_64 processors.

More of these recent Fedora Linux benchmark results can be found on OpenBenchmarking.org.

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