CoreMark over releases

2011-04-03 Thread Michael Hope
Here's some pretty pictures of the relative CoreMark performance on a Cortex-A9. Note that in accordance with the CoreMark rules, all results are estimates. Linaro GCC 4.5 and mainline GCC vs 4.5.2: http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/incoming/all-o3-vs-gcc-4.5.2.png Linaro GCC 4.5 releases vs o

Re: Linaro 4.5.2 v. CodeSourcery 4.5.1

2011-04-03 Thread Michael Hope
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Diane Holt wrote: > The good news is, my build completed successfully, once I put those extra > libs in /usr/lib and updated my PATH to include the bin in the work area. > > The bad news is, there are a number of utililties that this build doesn't > produce, that my

Improvements to bzr

2011-04-03 Thread Michael Hope
The Bazaar team have been working on improving the performance of bzr on the gcc-linaro tree. Here's how long the steps take on my machine with the current 2.4 development version: Update tip before branching: bzr pull 20.4 s (no revisions) Make the branch: bzr branch --hardlink 4.5 optspac

Re: can linaro toolchain compile ARM earlier than Cortex A8?

2011-04-03 Thread Michael Hope
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Barry Song <21cn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/3/30 Michael Hope : >> I couldn't reproduce this, sorry.  I built nbench using >> gcc-linaro-4.5-2011.03-0 using both -O3 -mtune=cortex-a9 >> -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 and -O3 -mtune=cortex-a9 -mfpu=neon and in both cases >> ASSIGNM