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Intel's New Compiler Boosts Transmeta's Crusoe

Posted by timothy on from the take-that-archenemy dept.

Bram Stolk writes: "Intel recently released its new C++ compiler for linux. I've been testing it on my TM5600 Crusoe. Ironically, it turns out that Transmeta's arch nemesis, Intel, provides the tools to really unlock Crusoe's full potential on linux." It doesn't support all of gcc's extensions, so Intel's compiler can't compile the Linux kernel yet, but choice is nice.

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  1. My results with Linux and NetBSD by Walter+Bell · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The Linux results were interesting, but rather flat: everything benefited from it on my system. However I rebooted into NetBSD and gave the compiler a shot at 'make sys' and 'make world'. Because the NetBSD kernel does not use any nonstandard gcc extensions, it compiled just fine with the new compiler. What I found was:
    • The kernel showed a marked performance benefit on the TM5600. On my TM5400 the results were not noticable.
    • Most userspace utilities appeared to be quite a bit faster on both CPUs. However, some (one notable example being /usr/local/bin/perl) were much slower with the new compiler. I verified that this was not the case on Linux, so it is unclear to me as to why this happens under NetBSD. Further investigation is needed.

    ~wally