LLVM vs stock GCC

[Gary Meyer]

There's nothing wrong with Henri's tests.  making any conclusions about OpenJDK-macosx-port isn't really fair since it isn't anywhere near finished (or even functional, really).  We have to get it to work before we will make it fast.
Gary.
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Gary Meyer
Java Software Build Engineer
gary.meyer at apple.com

On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Julien Ponge wrote:

> What's wrong in Henri's tests?
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> Julien Ponge
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> On lundi 18 avril 2011 at 22:03, Gary Meyer wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:
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>>> 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
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