Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Compilers test ICC vs MSVC vs GCC

BitMagic benchmark test compiled on Windows XP under different compilers (GCC 3.4, MSVC 8 and Intel C++ 11). Tests here are synthetic, but represent very practical functions used in data-mining and database search algorithms. No SSE2 or 64-bit optimization, pure 32-bit mode, single thread. System is running on Core2 Duo.

BitMagic individual tests (shorter - faster)


Overall results (shorter - faster)


Test results are relatively uniform (code is rather well tuned manually), it was a bit of surprise to see Intel C++ 11 slower in XOR count test (Humming distance).
Overall winner for integer algorithms - GNU C++.

1 comment:

  1. This article was written in 2009, but why are you testing GCC 3.4.4?

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