GCC 4.7 Compiler Performance On AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer
The Minion performance on GCC 4.7 is mixed.
The Nero2D performance regresses on the AMD hardware with GCC 4.7.0.
At least the Smallpt path-tracing benchmark is slightly ahead.
More AMD Bulldozer benchmarks looking at where things are at on LLVM/Clang along with other compiler tuning options will be published soon.
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