[e-users] evas benchmark results

[Daniel Kasak]

Greetings. Having nothing better to do, I decided to test various versions of gcc, using evas as the benchmark. My system: 1Ghz G4 Powerbook 1GB RAM Radeon R250 ( FireGL 9000 ) Gentoo Linux ( PPC ) 2.6.13-gentoo kernel CFLAGS: "-O2 -mtune=7450 -mcpu=7450 -maltivec -mabi-altivec -pipe" NPTL xorg-x11-6.8.99.15 The benchmark: Basically I ran evas_gl_x11_test 4 times, followed by running evas_software_x11_test 4 times. I restarted Enlightenment each time I began a new benchmark. Enlightenment had a static background and 3 gadgets ( battery, cpufreq, clock ). When I recompiled evas, I also recompiled eet, edb and imlib2 first. The results ( figures are average fps / evas bench scores ): Test Run gcc-3.4.4 gcc-4.0.2-pre20050917 gcc-4.1.0-beta20050902 GL 1 657.747 / 10.962 657.634 / 10.961 677.965 / 11.299 GL 2 659.212 / 10.987 658.078 / 10.968 682.894 / 11.382 GL 3 646.534 / 10.776 658.933 / 10.982 647.282 / 10.788 GL 4 645.827 / 10.764 659.841 / 10.997 681.061 / 11.351 Software 1 134.229 / 2.237 138.874 / 2.315 137.560 / 2.293 Software 2 134.280 / 2.238 138.891 / 2.315 137.183 / 2.286 Software 3 133.731 / 2.229 138.056 / 2.301 137.940 / 2.299 Software 4 134.237 / 2.237 138.877 / 2.315 138.366 / 2.306 So there. Feel free to post your own benchmarks :) If anyone's wondering - yes Enlightenment is just as stable when compiled with each version of gcc ( in the past I've compiled *almost* all the EFL with gcc-4.1.0 and run E without anything abnormal happening ). I'm interested to see of the x86 version of gcc is already showing improvements over 3.x. I know Apple put a lot of effort into gcc-4.x, so maybe the PPC version is ahead a little? I suppose I can always to the same on my work PC if no-one else will :) Dan