[haiku] Re: gcc4 hibryd
- From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:55:05 +0100
Christian Packmann schrieb:
But maybe the
turned off optimizations in our GCC4 indeed account for the missing
performance boost, then it could be low hanging fruit to get a boost
for GCC4 Haiku in general. :-)
I'm rather certain of that; let's just hope that full optimizations
don't break anything. We should see a 50-100% speed increase throughout,
and that would be cool.
Yes, the SSE version of the benchmark should have revealed if any
slowness can be attributed to running on Haiku as a platform. (Which one
couldn't have ruled out completely, BTW.)
It would also negate some current deficiencies: e.g. JPG decoding is
noticeably slower for really big images on Haiku compared to Windows
(comparing ShowImage to XnView). That is on my quad Core2@xxx GHz; on
slower machines, this will be noticeable even with rather normal image
sizes, e.g. 5MP photos or such. A "true" GCC4 build would remove such
disadvantages and level the playing field compared to Windows and Linux.
Note that there is a so called SIMD assembly version of libjpeg by a
Japanese coder, IIRC. I came across that by accident, ie googling, at
one point. I still have it on another computer, but it's probably still
available on the web as well, just don't know the URL right now.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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