LLVM Clang vs. GCC Compilers For AMD's Steamroller
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A more proper compiler comparison from the AMD APU with "Steamroller" CPU cores will come in the weeks ahead when more time allows, but it seems a lot of Phoronix readers are curious about the Steamroller performance and separately about the latest Clang C/C++ compiler improvements. I've spent some of today running some GCC and Clang compiler tests.
From an Ubuntu 13.10 x86_64 installation I tested GCC 4.8.2 as packaged in the "Saucy" archive followed by using Saucy's LLVM Clang 3.2 compiler followed by Clang 3.3. I also ran some LLVM Clang 3.4 and Clang 3.5 benchmarks using the LLVM.org Debian repository binaries. With my more comprehensive testing all compilers will be built locally from source and there will also be an even wider selection of code compilers benchmarked.
For those curious about these A10-7850K compiler benchmarks I uploaded all of the raw data to 1401197-PL-AMDKAVERI37 after running all of these tests under the Phoronix Test Suite.
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