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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2008-11-01 01:46:51 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2008-11-01 01:46:51 +0000
commit09d84babc2d1f36bbf9c3aaa624d5aea52461f46 (patch)
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parent8fa98450f729067e30db50cf75c69eb2efee0f48 (diff)
minor tweaks.
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ interesting benchmarks:
<p>Measurements are done by serially processing each file in the
respective benchmark, using Clang, gcc, and llvm-gcc as compilers. In
-order to track the performance of various subsystem, the timings have
+order to track the performance of various subsystems, the timings have
been broken down into separate stages where possible:
<ul>
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ been broken down into separate stages where possible:
<li><tt>-parse-noop</tt>: This option runs the parser on the input,
but without semantic analysis or any output. gcc and llvm-gcc have
no equivalent for this option.</li>
- <li><tt>-fsyntax-only</tt>: This option only runs semantic
+ <li><tt>-fsyntax-only</tt>: This option runs the parser with semantic
analysis.</li>
<li><tt>-emit-llvm -O0</tt>: For Clang and llvm-gcc, this option
converts to the LLVM intermediate representation but doesn't
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ with <tt>-parse-noop</tt> (for clang) or <tt>-MM</tt> with gcc and
llvm-gcc. This amounts to a fairly accurate measure of only the time
to perform semantic analysis (and parsing, in the case of gcc and llvm-gcc).</p>
+<p>Note that we already know that the LLVM optimizers are substantially (30-40%)
+faster than the GCC optimizers at a given -O level, so we only focus on -O0
+compile time here.</p>
+
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<h2><a name="enduser">Timing Results</a></h2>
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