ARM Cortex-A15 Exynos5 Compiler Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 24 November 2012 at 03:26 PM EST. Page 3 of 4. 5 Comments.
ARM Cortex A15 GCC Compiler Benchmarks
ARM Cortex A15 GCC Compiler Benchmarks

For video encoding you might see a small performance improvement under ARM with the newer GNU Compiler Collection release.

ARM Cortex A15 GCC Compiler Benchmarks

The 7-Zip compression performance saw a noticeable drop in performance with the newer release.

ARM Cortex A15 GCC Compiler Benchmarks

It takes longer to build software with the newer GCC 4.7 on ARM, at least for the common PHP package, but it's not incredibly surprising seeing as build times tend to increase when additional optimizations and other features end up being added over time.

ARM Cortex A15 GCC Compiler Benchmarks

Just as we've seen on x86, the C-Ray multi-threaded ray-tracing performance improves dramatically when moving from GCC 4.6 to GCC 4.7.


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