[MPlayer-users] gcc 2.95.3 vs. gcc 3.2
Per Wigren
wigren at home.se
Wed Sep 4 15:04:01 CEST 2002
Hi!
Please try again with "-mfpmath=sse" and "-mfpmath=sse,387" (may be buggy) !
Anyway, mplayer is quite asm-optimized, isn't it? gcc v3.2 almost always
create much faster code on pure c/c++ programs...
What was the mplayer commandline you used? I want to try this on my athlon..
Regards
Per Wigren
Friday 30 August 2002 17.29 skrev Arpi:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> I've done some quick comparson between 2.95.3 and brand-new 3.2 version.
> Note, that 3.2 supports pentium4 target/optimization, so it should result
> better code - in theory.
>
> System: 1.8ghz p4, 512mb rd800 ram, i850, abit th7-ii raid mb, ibm 80g hdd
> MPlayer: CVS version, almost every auto-detectable option present and
> detected
>
> 2.95.3 compilation time: (./configure;time make)
>
> real 2m0.673s
> user 1m51.150s
> sys 0m8.550s
>
> (repeated to verify results - error under 1%)
>
> 3.2 time: (./configure --cc=gcc-3.2;time make)
>
> real 3m1.728s
> user 2m49.810s
> sys 0m10.930s
>
> so, about 50% slower. ok, we hope the result will be faster so it does
> worth it. (gcc 2.95.3 -march & -mcpu was i686, 3.2's was pentium4,
> both auto-selected by ./configure)
>
> File: /3a/MPlayer/benchmark/testsuite2/Star_Wars_Episode_1.avi
> VIDEO: [DIV3] 720x576 24bpp 25.00 fps 1858.5 kbps (226.9 kbyte/s)
> gcc 2.93.5 : 22.070 : 21.985 : 22.038
> gcc 3.2 : 22.328 : 22.354 : 22.370
>
> -> slower at high bitrate
>
> File: /3a/MPlayer/benchmark/testsuite2/405divx_sm_v2[1].avi
> VIDEO: [DIV3] 356x240 24bpp 30.00 fps 343.0 kbps (41.9 kbyte/s)
> gcc 2.93.5 : 4.054 : 4.052 : 4.072
> gcc 3.2 : 4.062 : 4.042 : 4.086
>
> -> ~ same at low bitrate
>
> File: /3a/MPlayer/benchmark/testsuite2/sample.light.it.up.avi
> VIDEO: [DIV3] 640x352 24bpp 23.98 fps 823.5 kbps (100.5 kbyte/s)
> gcc 2.93.5 : : 3.983 : 3.953 : 3.949
> gcc 3.2 : : 4.086 : 4.045 : 4.050
>
> -> bit slower at middle bitrate
>
> I'm just wondering why do people prefer teh slow buggy 3.x series over the
> good old, working 2.95.3 ?
>
> Oh, i've found it!!!
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2408836 Aug 30 16:47 mplayer.295
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2336740 Aug 30 16:47 mplayer.32
>
> 3.2 produces 3% smaller (stripped size) binary :)
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
>
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