GCC 6.1 Compiler Optimization Level Benchmarks: -O0 To -Ofast + FLTO

Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 14 May 2016 at 11:04 AM EDT. 24 Comments
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Here are some extra GCC 6.1 compiler benchmarks to share this weekend, complementing the recent GCC 4.9 vs. GCC 5 vs. GCC 6 comparison and the GCC 6.1 vs. Clang 3.9 compiler comparison.

These latest results are GCC 6.1 being tested on Linux x86_64 at various compiler optimization levels. Tested combinations included -O0, -Os, -Og, -O1, -O2, -O3, -O3 -march=native, -O3 -march=native -flto, -Ofast -march=native.
GCC 6.1 Compiler Optimization Benchmarks

All the tests were done on the same Xeon E5-2687W v3 Haswell system running Debian Testing with Linux 4.5 and a hand-built GCC 6.1.0 compiler stack.
GCC 6.1 Compiler Optimization Benchmarks

The results mostly come down to what one would expect...
GCC 6.1 Compiler Optimization Benchmarks

GCC 6.1 Compiler Optimization Benchmarks

See the dozens of compiler optimization benchmark results via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.
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