LLVM vs stock GCC

[Julien Ponge]

What's wrong in Henri's tests?

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Julien Ponge

On lundi 18 avril 2011 at 22:03, Gary Meyer wrote: 
> no, llvm is actually faster … to a certain extent you are comparing apple to oranges
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> Gary Meyer
> Java Software Build Engineer
> gary.meyer at apple.com
> 
> On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:
> 
> > Hi to all,
> > 
> > I do some benchmarks with various JVMs available on OS/X
> > (http://blog.hgomez.net/2011/04/18/apple-jdk’s-openjdks-–-core2duo-vs-core-i7/)
> > 
> > Apple VM (1.6.0-22/1.6.0-24), OpenJDK 6, OpenJDK 7 from bsd-port and
> > OpenJDK 7 from macosx-port.
> > 
> > I notice a small performance loss in macosx-port version, which is
> > similar to bsd-port code base, except it's using LLVM.
> > 
> > Did there is a penalty using LLVM instead of stock GCC ?
> > 
> > Thanks
>