AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer bdver1 GCC 4.7 Tuning

Using GCC 4.7.0 on an AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer eight-core CPU from an ASUS motherboard running a near final Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86_64 with the Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing of vanilla GCC 4.7..0 and running some open-source computational tests when using CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS of -O3 and then varying -march= flags. The march= GCC 4.7 options tested for the AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 were k8, k8-sse3, barcelona, btver1, and bdver1 (optimal). Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel.

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AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer bdver1 GCC 4.7 Tuning, "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Blur", Higher Results Are Better "march=k8",99,99,98 "march=k8-sse3",95,95,94 "march=btver1",98,98,98 "march=barcelona",107,107,106 "march=bdver1",117,117,117 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Resizing", Higher Results Are Better "march=k8",129,130,131 "march=k8-sse3",129,129,130 "march=btver1",130,130,131 "march=barcelona",140,140,140 "march=bdver1",148,148,148 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Sharpen", Higher Results Are Better "march=k8",64,64,64 "march=k8-sse3",64,64,64 "march=btver1",65,65,65 "march=barcelona",88,88,88 "march=bdver1",102,102,102 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "march=k8",533.181525,524.980408,542.315949 "march=k8-sse3",652.4081,651.247289,650.679102 "march=btver1",661.606911,661.210777,662.470712 "march=barcelona",661.143923,662.092495,663.967723 "march=bdver1",593.878076,601.917663,594.245069 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "march=k8",52.76,52.711,52.729 "march=k8-sse3",52.748,52.76,52.755 "march=btver1",47.291,47.28,47.34 "march=barcelona",35.966,35.985,36.043 "march=bdver1",26.947,26.898,26.926