Early Benchmarks Of GCC 7 On Linux x86_64 With An Intel Core i7 6800K

The C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracer performance is slower with GCC 7.

Some of the Bullet physics tests were also slower on GCC 7.

Crafty meanwhile is trying to press ahead and run a bit faster with this newer compiler version.

That's about it for these fresh GCC 7.0 benchmarks. Stay tuned for more benchmarks of the GCC 7.0 development code on different Linux/BSD ARM/x86 systems as the GCC 7.1 stable release nears next year and also the automated tests done several times a week over on LinuxBenchmarking.com. For the most part there weren't too many big GCC 7 performance changes to see in today's results, but there are some regressions. Those wanting to dig through more compiler benchmark data can visit this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.