GCC 5 Brings Some Performance Improvements For Intel Broadwell Systems

[carewolf]

Gcc 5 is starting to look really good. I tried compiling various large projects recently as new compilers often reveal new issues and unfinished versions might trigger compiler bugs, and I really expected the major version change to break build scrips. But everything just build and ran. I was almost disappointed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC 5 Brings Some Performance Improvements For Intel Broadwell Systems

My latest Intel Broadwell Linux benchmarks are looking at the performance of the in-development GCC 5 compared to GCC 4.9, the current stable release shipped by many Linux distributions throughout 2014.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21451