Allan Gottlieb wrote:
At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 +0000 Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application
mix.
Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. "time
bzip2 -9 foobar" wouldn't be helpfull. So now I've switched to "-Os"
and soon I can test, if it's a real difference.
Please report back your findings, including the application mix you
tested. Although "scientific" timed benchmarks are important, I would
also be interested in how the system feels. For the latter ("feels"),
you should qualitatively describe the use of the system (web server,
desktop, laptop, etc) and what you commonly run (program devel, games,
scientific/engineering apps, etc).
thanks,
allan
Hi,
I've a desktop system and I commonly use applications like firefox,
thunderbird and so on, kde, gaim and a terminal is nearly always there.
Sometimes I'm running vim or kate.
If you're interested in some tests, not relevant for desktop systems,
there are some I made:
Time wasted to compress a 416 mb tar:
bzip2 gzip
-O3 2m40.882s 1m20.445s
-Os 2m39.314s 1m21.157s
decompress:
bzip2 gzip
-O3 0m52.575s 0m4.972s
-Os 0m53.387s 0m4.828s
Convert 203 Mbs MP3s to WAV using LAME:
-O3 14m4.461s
-Os 16m50.599s
from wav to mp3:
-O3 1m1.708s
-Os 1m12.841s
Now I'm emerging -e world with -Os. When it is finished, I'll mail you
the results.
Alex
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