LLVM Clang 3.2 vs. GCC 4.8 - Intel Ivy Bridge

Intel Core i7-3517UE Ivy Bridge quick comparison of LLVM 3.2 SVN and GCC 4.8 SVN as of 17 August 2012 for a quick future article on phoronix.com by Michael Larabel looking at the GCC vs. LLVM/Clang compiler performance on this latest Intel hardware.

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LLVM Clang 3.2 vs. GCC 4.8 - Intel Ivy Bridge, "FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine", Higher Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",4183.4611137449,4165.9315607563,4174.0351332272 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",4172.3127413299,4093.3581945767,4167.5485229834 "Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",32.543256044388,32.569947004318,32.585442066193 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",26.362336874008,26.311219215393,26.26762509346 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",16.485129833221,15.033894062042,16.5027821064,15.132097959518,15.08323097229,15.221102952957 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",13.013206005096,14.236819028854,13.828629016876,13.10706782341,13.137763023376,14.272500038147 "Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 - Primate Phylogeny Analysis", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",32.407058000565,32.429707050323,32.372329950333 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",26.44376206398,26.56747508049,26.43319106102 "John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",720,721,722 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",2102,2102,2102 "VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 - vpxenc", Higher Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",13.92,14.21,13.69 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",14.83,14.59,14.95 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",1166.381292,1177.359895,1167.835464 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",1206.396303,1212.453534,1211.847414 "7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",8199,8255,8329 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",8012,7911,7952 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",92.206,91.902,91.91 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",91.789,92.181,91.627 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",204,206,206 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",70,71,70 "Crafty 23.4 - Elapsed Time", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",99.73,99.87,99.94 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",103.38,103.35,103.41 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",20.589751005173,20.621001005173,20.66623210907,20.691358089447,20.608130931854 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",18.821539878845,18.84798002243,18.845054149628,18.868771076202,18.90407705307 "FFmpeg 0.10 - AVI To NTSC VCD", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",13.567540884018,13.51979804039,13.559355020523 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Bibd", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",160.284754,161.107806,160.585248 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",153.346379,154.361843,153.234021 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Graceful", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",91.233476,90.690628,91.084433 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",93.964642,94.351477,94.288534 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Solitaire", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",153.690946,155.859446,154.450857 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",143.197931,143.539033,143.054946 "Minion 0.12 - Benchmark: Quasigroup", Lower Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",209.604602,210.036552,210.186662 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",204.198808,204.297581,204.188869 "OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",71.2,71.5,69.4,71.5 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",71.8,71.7,71.5,71.8 "NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",24285.86,23054.07,22948.76 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",22990.63,22528.33,23262.9 "Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "LLVM 3.2 SVN 2012-08-17",16867.24,17128.77,16940.21 "GCC 4.8.0 2012-08-17",17009.22,16769.28,16626.85