FX-8350 Piledriver Tuning On AMD's Open64 Compiler

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FX-8350 Piledriver Tuning On AMD's Open64 Compiler

With this week's unveiling of the FX-8350 eight-core processor being based on AMD's new Piledriver architecture, in this article are benchmarks when testing out the Piledriver "bdver2" optimizations within AMD's own Open64 compiler.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=18060

[oleid]

@Michael: Could you include a run with -mtune=generic in such benchmarks, as it is used in standard distributions -- just to get a glimpse of what one can gain with processor specific optimizations.