Benchmarks of GCC 4.6.3 vs. GCC 4.7.2 from a Samsung Exynos 5 Dual SoC with ARM Cortex A15 dual-core ARMv7 1.7GHz processor. Cortex A15 ARM compiler benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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ARM Cortex A15 GCC Compiler Benchmarks,
"7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",1945,1964,1943
"GCC 4.7.2",1715,1676,1718
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",472.13,432.206,466.442,437.708,438.782,437.003
"GCC 4.7.2",373.776,309.906,314.32,364.55,319.162,409.944
"CacheBench - Test: Read",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",2577.202349,2558.164875,2577.128663
"GCC 4.7.2",2582.967159,2582.189698,2581.820043
"CacheBench - Test: Write",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",3524.22878,3530.326745,3509.557828
"GCC 4.7.2",3694.003308,3754.531811,3719.470206
"CacheBench - Test: Read / Modify / Write",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",6959.84663,7062.004586,6917.075451
"GCC 4.7.2",7012.519576,7132.900649,7131.90881
"CLOMP 3.3 - Static OMP Speedup",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",1.6,1.5,1.84,1.79,1.81,1.8,1.82,1.84,1.8,1.23
"GCC 4.7.2",1.85,1.82,1.8,1.81,1.79
"Crafty 23.4 - Elapsed Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",0.09,0.06,0.04,0.06,0.06,0.06
"GCC 4.7.2",0.04,0.06,0.06,0.06,0.06,0.06
"Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",153.13752293587,155.11469697952,168.1233420372,153.19142317772,169.76516795158,154.14180588722
"GCC 4.7.2",171.70983409882,169.74544906616,173.48445391655
"FFmpeg 1.0 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",162.81303405762,161.48745679855,163.31789708138
"GCC 4.7.2",156.16422390938,158.8052611351,157.21728801727
"FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",1250.129352359,1256.0497070749,1264.8198760903
"GCC 4.7.2",1479.0519077266,1472.2755638944,1478.4539806818
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",19.947520971298,19.710828065872,19.785613059998,19.783354043961,19.832285881042
"GCC 4.7.2",19.386611938477,19.143537998199,19.141826868057,19.23203587532,19.009457111359
"GMPbench 0.2 - Total Time",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",
"GCC 4.7.2",
"LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",52.106252193451,52.401699066162,52.305506944656,52.35026216507,52.344038009644
"GCC 4.7.2",54.380764007568,54.394644021988,54.410578012466,54.584766864777,54.614068031311
"NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",3549.3,3517.58,3540.42
"GCC 4.7.2",3698.89,3583.34,3453.41
"Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 - WAV To Ogg",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",31.77253985405,31.294903993607,31.86710190773,31.264814853668,31.308413028717
"GCC 4.7.2",31.523166894913,31.920390129089,31.978449106216,31.244006872177,32.059818029404
"OpenSSL 1.0.1c - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",10,10,10
"GCC 4.7.2",9.9,9.9,9.9
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 - 256MB File Compression",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",88.719329833984,88.855487108231,87.645838022232
"GCC 4.7.2",85.130136966705,83.727099180222,84.046157121658
"Primesieve 4.0 - 1e12 Prime Number Generation",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",956.644,946.769,970.307
"GCC 4.7.2",802.484,829.462,798.875
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",168.3,167.77,167.77,167.77
"GCC 4.7.2",160.74,160.26,160.74,160.74
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",40.06,37.27,36.5,36.75
"GCC 4.7.2",44.94,45.13,43.83,44.56
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",330.32,330.32,341.33,331.39
"GCC 4.7.2",336.84,339.07,337.95,339.07
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",432.9,434.31,435.73,437.16
"GCC 4.7.2",456.62,451.98,445.93,445.93
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",361.54,363.25,363.25,359.84
"GCC 4.7.2",340.65,345.25,345.25,345.25
"Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",1210,1208,1205
"GCC 4.7.2",1184,1182,1177
"Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",259.27619791031,252.95753312111,255.14100408554
"GCC 4.7.2",283.63771009445,284.49830698967,284.32592892647
"TSCP 1.81 - AI Chess Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",147109,147109,147148,147109,146366
"GCC 4.7.2",146172,145209,146483,146133,146483
"VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 - vpxenc",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",1.21,1.21,1.22
"GCC 4.7.2",1.28,1.3,1.3
"x264 2012-10-03 - H.264 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"GCC 4.6.3",10.56,10.77,10.53
"GCC 4.7.2",10.8,10.75,10.94