2011/4/10 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx>: > Did you run the tests more than once and average the results? Your > test code has no timing measurements in it, what are you measuring? > The entire time for the executable to run? That includes time for the > OS to create and run a new process, and will depend how busy the > system is, so could have very little to do with the code in the > executable. > I would also add, having made many similar benchmarks with gcc, that this test is probably too trivial for meaningful results. I wouldn't be surprised at all if with any level of optimization, the compiler can determine that the loop doesn't actually even have to be run more than once, since the result is the same every time through. Brian
