GCC 10 Link-Time Optimization Benchmarks On AMD Threadripper

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 7 January 2020 at 03:08 PM EST. Page 3 of 4. 27 Comments.

The TSCP chess benchmark performance improved slightly when LTO'ed.

The Stockfish chess benchmark meanwhile improved more with the whole-program option enabled.

The Himeno pressure solver was one of the few cases where LTO led to slightly worse performance.

Making use of link-time optimizations does lead to significantly longer compile times.


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