A few ideas for FC7+

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:18:47AM +0200, Marcus Camen wrote:
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-10/msg00173.html
>   We run SPECcpu2000 benchmarks on x86-64 to compare -Os and -O2. The
>   results are 1011 (-Os) and 1140 (-O2) for SPECint and for a subset of
>   SPECfp 1202 (-Os) vs. 1270 (-O2), so the speed difference is too high
>   to make this change.

Does SPEC CPU2000 really measure the workload appropriately enough to be a
good basis for this decision? Especially when they're just giving a subset
of the integer and fp benchmarks?



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