Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Friday January 03 2003 @ 10:37AM EST
Ah, benchmarking -- many a cold winter's night has been warmed by the glow of heated newsgroup debates and flaming mailing lists.
I started writing this benchmark article with a singular goal: understanding how to get the most floating-point performance from my Intel-architecture Linux systems. Then the question arose of "Which programming language should I use?"; shortly thereafter, I asked myself "And whose compiler should I use?" And, of course, I was also curious about performance on hyperthreaded and multiprocessor computers...
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