Re: GDB 4.18 with GCC 3.3.6

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
> > I'm putting together a performance regression benchmark
> > suite right now by pulling together all the known microbenchmarks
> > that run slower on newer versions of gcc, in hopes
> > of helping make sure that gcc-4.1 resolves most of them.
>
> i would be very interested in your preliminary results if you have any.
>
> maybe your going to test 2.95.3 / 3.3.6 / 3.4.4 / 4.0.1  / 4.1.x with C based 
> benchmarks, but i would be also very intrested in complex C++ (using stl 
> features) for the same set of compilers, as my 'embedded' application is 
> written in complex c++.

Some of our tests come from bug reports in gcc bugzilla,
but most so far come from bench++.  At least a couple
involve c++.  You can see those by running bench++ yourself,
it's pretty good once you get past the setup hurdles
(like, it wants you to install ksh!).  It's at
http://www.research.att.com/~orost/bench_plus_plus.html
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