GCC 4.9 Compiler Benchmarks On A Dual-Core Haswell

With SciMark2 the Monte Carlo performance improved greatly between GCC 4.7 and 4.8, but nothing more to see out of GCC 4.9.

The GCC compilation process is still in the tradition of slowing down with each succeeding update... LLVM/Clang is still leading over GCC when it comes to compilation times.

There are no C-Ray performance improvements to report this time with GCC 4.9.

You can view more of these (non-exciting) benchmark results at 1312084-SO-GCC49INTE16. Stay tuned for the more exciting numbers coming from the higher-end AMD and Intel platforms. At least now you know what to expect out of GCC 4.9 if you're running a low-end Haswell system, but aside from performance, there's many great features to GCC 4.9 as covered on this article's first page.