Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Jun 15 22:04:15 UTC 2009
Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell at gmail.com) said:
> Is dropping hardware worth this instruction? I suggested some
> benchmarking and demonstrated that it's a very small improvement for
> Theora. I'm not sure if anyone got around to testing freetype,
> firefox, or any of the other couple CPU heavy desktop apps.
>
> It would probably be most interesting to perform that test on the
> x86-only ATOM, since I can see CMOV being a bigger win on an in-order
> CPU.
>
> (I can't personally protest: I think all the x86 stuff I have has CMOV).
Last time I profiled it (using the bits of openbench that actually worked),
i586 -> i686 was an improvement of 1% (Core2Duo) to 2% (Atom). Athlon64 was
essentially equal.
SPECCPU results showed similar.
Bill
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